Names, addresses, and Short Biographkes of 7000 Issei

[Japanese Who's Who in America (cover title)] Zaibei Nihonjin jinmei jiten

Nichibei Shinbunsha [Japanese American News]

Notes: "A Who's Who in America with some entries for Canada and Mexico. Organized alphabetically, it provides the following data: genseki, address, date of birth, year of arrival, occupational information, and marital status."—A Buried Past, 774.

Some 7,000 families are thus identified, the vast majority in California. This directory also provides the number of children in each household and notes if they were born in the United States.

The first eighty or so pages of the book are devoted to a history of the Japanese in America to that point. There is an emphasis on the anti-Japanese movements of the 20th century, including the complete text of California's Alien Land Law, which prohibited the Issei from owning land or entering into long-term leases. Proposals to deny Japanese Americans birthright citizenship are also discussed. Another short section discusses Texas rice-growing colonies.

OCLC: 24918357, 34031568, 674146435

Edition + Condition: First edition. A very good copy in the publisher's maroon cloth. Spine gilt darkened to illegibility.

Publication: San Francisco: [Japanese American News] Nichibei Shinbunsha, 1922.

Item No: #362044

Price: $3,000