1940 History of the Central Japanese Association

[A History of the Central Japanese Association of America] Beikoku chuo nihonjinkaishi

Fujioka, Shiro

Notes: "A chronological history of the Central Japanese Association [Beikoku Chuo Nihonjinkai] of Southern California and it's affiliated locals from 1915 to 1940."—A Buried Past, 540.

Illustrated with halftone photographs of the men who led and belonged to the various chapters.

The BCN or CJA was one of the four major Japanese American organizations prior to the Second World War. The CJA formed originally as the Southern California Japanese Association and while it eventually changed its name and had chapters in Southern Nevada, Arizona, and New Mexico, it was primarily a Los Angeles-area group.

The author was a journalist who for decades wrote for a number of Japanese-language newspapers in Southern California.

12, [26 pages of plates], 445 pages. Text in Japanese.

OCLC: 20879640, 673948348

Edition + Condition: First edition. A very good copy. Boards have small stains and abraded areas on the rear cover; small split to the cloth at the top of the spine.

Publication: Los Angeles: Beikoku Chuo Nihonjinkai, 1940 (Showa 15).

Item No: #308081

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