Item No: #307893 Directorio general de los japoneses residentes en la república mexicana y sus descendentes (sic) 1955 [General Directory of Japanese Residents and Their Descendants in Mexico, 1955] / Zenboku nikkeijin jushoroku. Katsuji Tosha, Oscar K.
Directorio general de los japoneses residentes en la república mexicana y sus descendentes (sic) 1955 [General Directory of Japanese Residents and Their Descendants in Mexico, 1955] / Zenboku nikkeijin jushoroku
Directorio general de los japoneses residentes en la república mexicana y sus descendentes (sic) 1955 [General Directory of Japanese Residents and Their Descendants in Mexico, 1955] / Zenboku nikkeijin jushoroku
Directorio general de los japoneses residentes en la república mexicana y sus descendentes (sic) 1955 [General Directory of Japanese Residents and Their Descendants in Mexico, 1955] / Zenboku nikkeijin jushoroku
Directorio general de los japoneses residentes en la república mexicana y sus descendentes (sic) 1955 [General Directory of Japanese Residents and Their Descendants in Mexico, 1955] / Zenboku nikkeijin jushoroku

Directory and Biographies of Japanese Mexicans

Directorio general de los japoneses residentes en la república mexicana y sus descendentes (sic) 1955 [General Directory of Japanese Residents and Their Descendants in Mexico, 1955] / Zenboku nikkeijin jushoroku

Notes: An uncommon directory of Issei and Nisei living in Mexico after the Second World War, with extensive advertisements from Japanese-owned businesses and about forty pages of half-tone plates of Japanese residents and scenes.

The directory is organized by city, with names in kanji and addresses in Roman type. The advertisements are mostly bilingual, in Spanish and Japanese. Based on the number of entries and advertisements, a significant proportion of the Japanese-Mexican community supported this project. At the back are brief "Who's Who"–style biographies of more than a thousand Japanese Mexicans.

In the introduction, the Japanese Ambassador, K. Kubata, laments the upheaval experienced by the Japanese community in Mexico during the war. As in the US, Japanese immigrants and their children were required to relocate away from Pacific Coast areas, but they were not interned. "Muchos fueron las vicisitudes que tuvieron que sufrir después de abandonar lo que ellos consideraban ya un hogar permanente" (They suffered many vicissitudes after having to abandon what they considered permanent homes).

[2], 443 pages.

OCLC: 673962122 (all in Japan)

Edition + Condition: First edition (first printing). A near fine hardcover copy.

Publication: Mexico: Yukio Shimizu Shoten, 1955.

Item No: #307893

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