Thirty Years of Japanese Settlement in Yakima, Washington

[History of the Japanese in the Yakima Valley] Yakima heigen nihonjin shi

[Yakima Japanese Association, Thirtieth Anniversary Project Committee ] Soritsu 30-shunen Kinen Jigyo Iinkai

Notes: "A local history with summaries of the Japanese Association, religious groups, Japanese language schools, the exclusion movement, agricultural activities, and other topics. Also has population statistics, and an extended Who's Who, and a 27-page Nisei directory."—A Buried Past, 306.

The directory of Nisei, or second-generation residents, reflects a trend in the late 1930s in the Japanese American community to support and highlight the role of native-born Japanese Americans. Since most Japanese immigrants could not become US citizens and were often denied re-entry if they returned to visit their homeland, they saw the success of the Nisei as critical to preserving the hard-won gains they had made in the previous generation. In 1939, a nationwide directory of Nisei would be published and there were active campaigns in Japan to encourage Kibei, American-born Japanese living on the island, to return to the US.

21, 23, 8, 399, 27 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates.

OCLC: 41699953

Edition + Condition: First edition. A near fine copy, quarterbound in leather. In a very good example of the original printed box.

Publication: Yakima, Washington: [Yakima Japanese Association] Yakima Nihonjinkai, [1935] Showa 10.

Item No: #307819

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