First Edition. An early printed defense of Japanese immigrant rights in English, an appeal by one of the most prominent Japanese immigrants in California against the 1920 Alien Land Law initiative. This brochure-pamphlet was issued during the campaign to expand the scope of California’s alien land law. The measure proposed.....

First Edition. A substantial printed photo album depicting Japanese immigrants and their Nisei children. The single men and family groups are depicted in halftone portraits inside pre-printed color decorative borders. Above each image is the state they are living in; below each image is the name of the head of.....

First Edition. A major photo-illustrated book from the lens of Toyo Miyatake, perhaps the most acclaimed Japanese American photographer of his generation. Miyatake is credited as photographer (寫眞技師) on the colophon and many, if not most, of the uncredited photographs of the Japanese community in Los Angeles are likely his.....

First Edition. A tourist guide to San Francisco and the Panama Pacific International Exposition (PPIE), a fair in San Francisco to celebrate the opening of the Panama Canal. The Japanese Pavilion at the expo was a joint venture between the Japanese government and Japanese entrepreneurs in California. The local organizers.....

First Edition. The second of what would become 40-odd Usagi Yojimbo books. Collects Usagi Yojimbo comics nos. 1 through 6. Usagi Yojimbo is one of the longest-running comics series written and illustrated by a single artist, spanning 250 comic book issues over four decades. This is a young adult samurai.....

First Edition. The sixth installment in the one of the most successful "funny animal" comic books series, now in its fifth decade. This is one of 750 numbered hardcover copies signed on a bookplate on the front pastedown (the typical Fantagraphics limited edition format). The volume collects UY nos. 25.....

First Edition. The fourth installment in the long-running Usagi Yojimbo graphic novel series, and the first with a hardcover issue made from first printing sheets (when Fantagraphics reissued the first three volumes in hardcover—all had been paperback originals—they used the sheets of later printings. Titled on the spine "The Dragon.....

First Edition. A landmark graphic novel: the first of what would become 40-odd Usagi Yojimbo books. This first volume collects stories from Albedo (a legendary independent comic), Critters, Doomsday Squad, and Usagi Yojimbo Summer Special. Usagi Yojimbo is one of the longest-running comics series written and illustrated by a single.....

Second Printing. An English-language translation of the second volume of Niisato's cautionary series "portraying the hardships and tragedies of Japanese immigrants and their descendants." This second volume "touches upon Nisei delinquency and runaways" (A Buried Past, 520). Among the stories told are of Umekichi Tanaka, a Nisei Christian sentenced to.....

A very scarce example of the War Relocation Authority's efforts to find opportunities for interned Japanese Americans in New England. The pejorative headline suggests that the Boston field office of the WRA may not have fully supported the effort. This pamphlet is dated December 31, 1944. The Western Defense Command.....

First Edition. A bilingual pamphlet detailing the origins of and the official Japanese response to the 1913 Alien Land Law passed in California. The law prohibited foreigners who were not eligible to obtain citizenship from purchasing land or entering into leases longer than three years. It applied almost entirely to.....

First Edition. In all likelihood, this is the first published book to describe the internment of the Japanese in the United States following the attack on Pearl Harbor. Taguchi (1905–1956), a Japanese documentary filmmaker and cinematographer, had been in the United States for several years making newsreels for American studios;.....

First Edition. "A general treatment of the Japanese in America by a Waseda University professor and a Christian socialist. He views the exclusion movement as rooted in racial prejudice, looks for more emigration from Japan, and anticipates that the Pacific Coast will become the meeting ground for the East and.....