Eyes of the Emperor is an American historical novel written by Graham Salisbury, and is currently published by Laurel-Leaf, which is an imprint of Random House Children's Books, in the United States in paperback.

In 2006, Eyes of the Emperor won the Leslie Bradshaw Award for Young Adult Literature.

The story starts in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1941, where a Japanese American boy, Eddy, lives.

Eddy and his Japanese American company must do manual labor, such as digging trenches, while the soldiers of other ethnicities go on with regular army training.

Accidental attacks continue, and the treatment of the Japanese American soldiers becomes worse as World War II worsens.