The first and only yearbook/almanac issued by the Japanese-American Commercial Weekly (Nichibei Shuho, later Nichibei Jiho). While similar in format to the yearbooks and directories published at the time on the West Coast, this book is much more focused on the import-export businesses that were located on the East Coast.....

First Edition. "This contains essays, speeches, and commentaries on anti-Japanese exclusion and U.S.-Japan relations by Japanese immigrant leaders and white Americans. The appendix describes origins of various historical matters and Issei social customs, as well as pioneering individuals and organizations in the mainland and Hawaii."—Annotated Bibliography of Japanese Americans in.....

A guide to New York for entrepreneurs, published by the Japanese Times. The content is more focused on business travellers and potential investors, covering history, transportation, Japanese organizations, good hotels, and the like. About 200 pages (multiple pagination). With a few ad pages. Text in Japanese, except for listings of hotels.....

First Edition. "This contains essays, speeches, and commentaries on anti-Japanese exclusion and U.S.-Japan relations by Japanese immigrant leaders and white Americans. The appendix describes origins of various historical matters and Issei social customs, as well as pioneering individuals and organizations in the mainland and Hawaii."—Annotated Bibliography of Japanese Americans in.....

First Edition. A collection of the key legal works affecting the internment of Japanese Americans during the Second World War, published by the leading Japanese American civil rights organization. The three documents reprinted here are the amicus curiae brief of the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) in the Fred Korematsu case.....

A double portrait of Dr. Kaku Sudo (1861–1963), the first Japanese American woman physician, and her colleague Dr. Hana Abe (1873–1922). The two Japanese women studied medicine at Laura Memorial College in Cincinnati in the mid-1890s. This photograph was used as the basis of an illustration in the Chicago Tribune.....

First Edition. "A work on the Japanese from Yamanashi Prefecture, especially in California. Presents a history of the Japanese from this Prefecture, including their contributions to Japanese language newspapers, financial institutions, the laundry business; five biographical sketches of leading pioneers; and an outline of the Yamanashi Prefectural Associations of Northern.....

Third Edition. A photobook of Hawaiian scenes, mostly of the Japanese community there, with more than half of the images devoted to Japanese American sugar plantations and processing plants. Despite this being the third edition (the first edition was published in 1910), it is rather scarce, with just one holding.....

The beginning of a Japanese immigrant's journey to a new life in the United States, a form partially printed in purple ink and completed in manuscript with an official orange stamp. This visa grants a Mr. Takahashi (高橋正業, the first name could be transliterated Shogyo, Seigyo, or Masaygyo) leave to.....

A directory of Japanese Americans and Japanese American-owned businesses, primarily on the West Coast, but including listings for many other states and the provinces of Canada. The Hokubei Mainichi (North American Daily) was a bilingual newspaper for the Japanese American community in San Francisco. It began publishing in 1948, soon.....

First Edition. "This contains essays, speeches, and commentaries on anti-Japanese exclusion and U.S.-Japan relations by Japanese immigrant leaders and white Americans. The appendix describes origins of various historical matters and Issei social customs, as well as pioneering individuals and organizations in the mainland and Hawaii."—Annotated Bibliography of Japanese Americans in.....

A massive (nearly 1200 pages) national directory of Japanese Americans, primarily in California but with entries from 35 states and the District of Columbia. The directory is organized by state and then city, followed by the name in Roman letters, address, and phone number of the head of each household.....

Two issues (vol. 1, nos. 2 and 3; Dec. 9 and 16, 1912) of a Japanese language newspaper published by the Enterprise Printing Co. Enterprise Printing, with K. C. Furukawa as president and Kikuo Hiromura as manager, operated for a time in Portland doing job printing. How long they published.....