Issei and Nisei

Issei and Nisei PDF Author: Rebecca Steoff
Publisher: Chelsea House Publications
ISBN: 9780791021798
Category : Japanese Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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In the late 1800s the United States government encouraged Japanese emigration. Conflict started between the first generation Japanese Americans and their American born children because of the cultural influences from the United States population.

Issei and Nisei

Issei and Nisei PDF Author: Rebecca Steoff
Publisher: Chelsea House Publications
ISBN: 9780791021798
Category : Japanese Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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In the late 1800s the United States government encouraged Japanese emigration. Conflict started between the first generation Japanese Americans and their American born children because of the cultural influences from the United States population.

The Issei

The Issei PDF Author: Yuji Ichioka
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780029324356
Category : Japan
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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A portrait of the first Japanese immigrants, known as the Issei. Leaving behind a still-traditional, feudal society for the wide-open world of America, the Japanese were long barred from holding citizenship and regarded for many years as unassimilable. Their story is one of suffering and struggle that has produced a record of courage and perseverance.

Issei, Nisei, War Bride

Issei, Nisei, War Bride PDF Author: Evelyn Nakano Glenn
Publisher: Temple University Press
ISBN: 1439903506
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 310

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A unique study of Japanese American women employed as domestic workers.

Personal Justice Denied

Personal Justice Denied PDF Author: United States. Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Japanese Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 484

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Issei and Nisei

Issei and Nisei PDF Author: Daisuke Kitagawa
Publisher: New York : Seabury Press
ISBN:
Category : Japanese
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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Memoir of a young Issei Methodist clergyman based in Washington state during the trying years of World War II. Published in the fall of 1967, Daisuke Kitagawa's account was among the first book-length first-person accounts of the Japanese American incarceration. Kitagawa's account begins by describing the state of the Japanese American community in Washington prior to the war before following his community into the Pinedale Assembly Center in Fresno, California, then to Tule Lake. At Tule Lake, he ministers to the population while also assisting camp administrators. After segregation, he turns his attention to assisting with resettlement before going on to work at the Military Intelligence Service Language School in Minnesota. The memoir ends with the end of the war and does not discuss his postwar life. Though written in the first person and focused on Kitagawa's experiences, it is meant to tell a larger story; as Kitagawa writes: "The book is autobiographical, but it is not my autobiography. If anything, it is a collective autobiography of the Japanese-American community as a whole, in which I am simultaneously an observer, an actor, and the narrator."

Nisei Daughter

Nisei Daughter PDF Author: Monica Itoi Sone
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 9780295956886
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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A Japanese-American's personal account of growing up in Seattle in the 1930s and of being subjected to relocation during World War II.

Issei and Nisei

Issei and Nisei PDF Author: Daisuke Kitagawa
Publisher: New York : Seabury Press
ISBN:
Category : Japanese
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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Book Description
Memoir of a young Issei Methodist clergyman based in Washington state during the trying years of World War II. Published in the fall of 1967, Daisuke Kitagawa's account was among the first book-length first-person accounts of the Japanese American incarceration. Kitagawa's account begins by describing the state of the Japanese American community in Washington prior to the war before following his community into the Pinedale Assembly Center in Fresno, California, then to Tule Lake. At Tule Lake, he ministers to the population while also assisting camp administrators. After segregation, he turns his attention to assisting with resettlement before going on to work at the Military Intelligence Service Language School in Minnesota. The memoir ends with the end of the war and does not discuss his postwar life. Though written in the first person and focused on Kitagawa's experiences, it is meant to tell a larger story; as Kitagawa writes: "The book is autobiographical, but it is not my autobiography. If anything, it is a collective autobiography of the Japanese-American community as a whole, in which I am simultaneously an observer, an actor, and the narrator."

Issei

Issei PDF Author: Yukiko Kimura
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824842944
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 305

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Issei Baseball

Issei Baseball PDF Author: Robert K. Fitts
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496220897
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344

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Baseball has been called America’s true melting pot, a game that unites us as a people. Issei Baseball is the story of the pioneers of Japanese American baseball, Harry Saisho, Ken Kitsuse, Tom Uyeda, Tozan Masko, Kiichi Suzuki, and others—young men who came to the United States to start a new life but found bigotry and discrimination. In 1905 they formed a baseball club in Los Angeles and began playing local amateur teams. Inspired by the Waseda University baseball team’s 1905 visit to the West Coast, they became the first Japanese professional baseball club on either side of the Pacific and barnstormed across the American Midwest in 1906 and 1911. Tens of thousands came to see “how the minions of the Mikado played the national pastime.” As they played, the Japanese earned the respect of their opponents and fans, breaking down racial stereotypes. Baseball became a bridge between the two cultures, bringing Japanese and Americans together through the shared love of the game. Issei Baseball focuses on the small group of men who formed the first professional and semiprofessional Japanese baseball clubs. These players’ story tells the history of early Japanese American baseball, including the placement of Saisho, Kitsuse, and their families in relocation camps during World War II and the Japanese immigrant experience.

Life Behind Barbed Wire

Life Behind Barbed Wire PDF Author: Yasutaro Soga
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824863356
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 273

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Yasutaro Soga’s Life behind Barbed Wire (Tessaku seikatsu) is an exceptional firsthand account of the incarceration of a Hawai‘i Japanese during World War II. On the evening of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Soga, the editor of a Japanese-language newspaper, was arrested along with several hundred other prominent Issei ( Japanese immigrants) in Hawai‘i. After being held for six months on Sand Island, Soga was transferred to an Army camp in Lordsburg, New Mexico, and later to a Justice Department camp in Santa Fe. He would spend just under four years in custody before returning to Hawai‘i in the months following the end of the war. Most of what has been written about the detention of Japanese Americans focuses on the Nisei experience of mass internment on the West Coast—largely because of the language barrier immigrant writers faced. This translation, therefore, presents us with a rare Issei voice on internment, and Soga’s opinions challenge many commonly held assumptions about Japanese Americans during the war regarding race relations, patriotism, and loyalty. Although centered on one man’s experience, Life behind Barbed Wire benefits greatly from Soga’s trained eye and instincts as a professional journalist, which allowed him to paint a larger picture of those extraordinary times and his place in them. The Introduction by Tetsuden Kashima of the University of Washington and Foreword by Dennis Ogawa of the University of Hawai‘i provide context for Soga’s recollections based on the most current scholarship on the Japanese American internment.