Sidney Gulick, a Congregational minister, spent twenty-five years in Japan working for the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. When he returned to the US, in 1913, he advocated for better US-Japanese relations and the end of discrimination against Japanese immigrants in America. He published several books and pamphlets.....

First Edition. A business-oriented travel guide to the United States with additional sections devoted to Europe, South America, and Cuba. The book offers advice on obtaining permission to travel (a somewhat difficult endeavor given anti-Japanese sentiment in the US), information on traveling by rail across America, recommended hotels for entrepreneurs.....

A card granting American citizens interned in relocation camps during the Second World War "parole" to leave the camp for work or educational purposes. This card was issued to Fumiko Ida Saito, formerly of Alameda, California, while she was interned at Topaz War Relocation Center in Utah (here referred to.....

This is one of many guides to studying and immigrating to the United States by Katayama Sen published under a variety of similar titles with somewhat different content. Katayama spent a dozen years in the United States, returning to Japan in 1896. He discovered socialism while in America and became.....

First Edition. A book encouraging Japanese civilians "of all classes" to emigrate to the regions newly under Japanese control, following the outbreak of the Second World War in the Pacific, including Thailand, Burma, and the Philippines. There is even a short chapter describing Hawaii (pp. 94ff). The book adopts the.....

First Edition. A travelog of the author's trip to the United States to visit the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Sugishita went on to be a banker and member of the House of Representatives in Japan. This is a scarce 19th century Japanese view of the United States. [6], [3].....

First Edition. A bilingual pamphlet detailing the origins of and the official Japanese response to the 1913 Alien Land Law passed in California. The law prohibited foreigners who were not eligible to obtain citizenship from purchasing land or entering into leases longer than three years. It applied almost entirely to.....

First Edition. A collection of reproductions of Wong's Human Instamatic drawings of people and places in and around Eureka, California. Mostly printed offset in black; a few have an overprinting in red for his chop. One reproduces Wong's "Human Instamatic" blindstamp. Wong lived in Old Town, Eureka, at the time.....

A trade catalog of lamps designed by Ray See under the See-Mar brand name of mid-century modern furniture, featuring 25 original 8-by-10-inch black-and-white photographs of lamps in furniture showroom settings, followed by a three-page price list ($35 to $150). These contents are housed in a three-prong paper folder with title.....

First Edition. An examination of the likelihood and potential shape of a war in the Pacific between Japan and the United States, with an emphasis on naval and aerial battles. Kawashima focuses more on the Philippines and Guam and less over Hawaii than some writers on the subject. He also.....

First Edition. "A biography of the well known Issei pioneer, Ushijima Kinji (1864–1926), designed especially for young readers. Known in English as George Shima, the Potato King, the subject [of the book] was a native of the city of Kurume in Fukuoka Prefecture who came to America in 1888. His.....

First Edition. An example of kokumin gaiko, or people's diplomacy, in support of the Japanese Army's occupation of China. Dodo was the editor of Rafu Shimpo, the largest Japanese daily in Los Angeles, and according to newspaper accounts at the time, a frequent lecturer in support of Japan's activities in.....

First Edition. A rare guide to coming to America published during the brief window during the first years of the 20th century when it was legal for Japanese citizens to emigrate to the United States, before the 1907 Gentlemen's Agreement made the process much more difficult. Still, this book reflects.....