First Edition. The first fifteen issues of these short (24 to 48 pages) collections of sketches, ideas, and Usagi Yojimbo drawings. The first twelve issues were black and white; numbers 13 to 15 include color reproductions. All issues are signed by Sakai. This set includes signed, numbered, and sketched copies.....

Sidney Gulick, a Congregational minister, spent twenty-five years in Japan working for the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. When he returned to the US, in 1913, he advocated for better US-Japanese relations and the end of discrimination against Japanese immigrants in America. He published several books and pamphlets.....

First Edition. A business-oriented travel guide to the United States with additional sections devoted to Europe, South America, and Cuba. The book offers advice on obtaining permission to travel (a somewhat difficult endeavor given anti-Japanese sentiment in the US), information on traveling by rail across America, recommended hotels for entrepreneurs.....

First Edition. The first collection of short stories by a Japanese American writer in English. The stories are interconnected and offer an intimate look at Issei and Nisei family life in the 1920s and 1930s. The book was scheduled for publication in 1942, but it was postponed by the outbreak.....

"A guide to America which provides general information as well as specific facts on the American educational system, matriculation requirements, and curricula, especially of colleges and universities. The appendix consists of a list of selected American colleges and universities."—A Buried Past, 113. The author may be Rippo Eitaro Iijima, a......

First Edition. "Biographical sketches of John Aiso, Hiroshi Miyamura, Ben Kuroki, and Mike Masaoka; interviews with Fujioka Shiro and Mike Masaoka; and profiles of 300-odd Issei and Nisei. Includes brief essays on the exclusion movement, internment, and the second generation."—A Buried Past, 633.1. The subjects of the book are the.....

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. The second collection of poems by the first Japanese American millionaire, the Stockton "potato king" Ushijima Kinji, known in the United States as George Shima. In 1920, Ushijima's "Shima Fancy" brand of potatoes had an 85% market share and were grown on 28,000 acres in California's.....

First Edition. The title of this book translates literally as "Guide for Japanese Immigration to Mexico", which is misleading, hence the supplied translation which better explains the purpose of the book. In the late 1920s, following a succession of racist and anti-Japanese laws passed in the US Congress and in.....

First Edition. A self-published Nisei memoir. The author was born in Seattle, Washington, in 1907. He moved to Japan as a boy, but came back to the US as a young man. He graduated from New York University in 1934 and returned to California soon after. He was interned at.....

The editor of the largest Japanese daily newspaper in Los Angeles offers an introduction to American politics, culture, and economics. Each section, written in Japanese, concludes with a list of English-language resources divided into categories of periodicals, books, and in one case, films. Illustrated with several small charts and maps.....

First Edition. An introductory medical textbook, illustrated by the author of Citizen 13660. After publishing her illustrated internment memoir (and proto-graphic novel) Citizen 13660 in 1946, Miné Okubo found occasional work as a commercial artist. Here she provides anatomical drawings in a much looser style than the usual technical drawings.....

A book tracing the history of US-Japanese relations focusing on the growth of anti-Japanese sentiment in the United States and the legal and diplomatic efforts to exclude and discriminate against Japanese immigrants. The author then turns to the growing possibility of a war in the Pacific between the two countries.....