Item No: #361096 [The Honor of Japanese American Citizens] Nikkei shimin no koei. Kanichi Niisato.

A Deaf-Blind Issei Writer on the Nisei

[The Honor of Japanese American Citizens] Nikkei shimin no koei

Notes: Niisato (1884–1962?), a mostly blind and deaf Christian minister from Japan, wrote a number of books extolling the importance of second-generation Japanese Americans (Nisei) to America and Japan. In his introduction, he describes this short book as a sequel to his 1939 work, "A 500-Year Plan for the Japanese in America" (see A Buried Past, 460). This book consists of self-congratulatory personal essays about the rightness of his advice to the Nisei that they should be loyal to the United States and not to Japan in the Second World War.

The book is prefaced by several laudatory forewords by other Japanese American pastors and it ends with a timeline of postwar events that benefited the Nisei.

Niisato emigrated from Japan in the early 20th century and toured widely, speaking to Japanese audiences in the US and Hawaii. He was sometimes called a male Helen Keller (see the introductory section of this book) because he was both hearing and sight impaired. During the Second World War he was interned at Poston; he became a US citizen in 1957.

[2], 68, [2] pages plus a halftone frontispiece photograph of Niisato presiding over the funeral of two Nisei brothers killed in Europe during the war.

OCLC: 49627114 (Biola, Berkeley), 676009299 (NDL).

Edition + Condition: First edition. A few short tears to the edges, else a very good copy in printed wrappers (paperback).

Publication: Los Angeles: (the author), 1950.

Item No: #361096

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