The programs for the first two post-war conventions of the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) Intermountain District, which was made up of local chapters in Idaho and Malheur County, in eastern Oregon, at the time of the first convention; by the second convention the district had expanded to include Utah.....

First Edition. "An early comprehensive survey of the Japanese in North America. Includes chapters on American society; the historical background to immigration to North America; the Japanese communities of California, Washington, Oregon, and other states, as well as British Columbia, Alaska, and Hawaii; the types of employment in which the.....

A card granting American citizens interned in relocation camps during the Second World War "parole" to leave the camp for work or educational purposes. This card was issued to Fumiko Ida Saito, formerly of Alameda, California, while she was interned at Topaz War Relocation Center in Utah (here referred to.....

This is one of many guides to studying and immigrating to the United States by Katayama Sen published under a variety of similar titles with somewhat different content. Katayama spent a dozen years in the United States, returning to Japan in 1896. He discovered socialism while in America and became.....

First Edition. A book encouraging Japanese civilians "of all classes" to emigrate to the regions newly under Japanese control, following the outbreak of the Second World War in the Pacific, including Thailand, Burma, and the Philippines. There is even a short chapter describing Hawaii (pp. 94ff). The book adopts the.....

First Edition. A travelog of the author's trip to the United States to visit the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Sugishita went on to be a banker and member of the House of Representatives in Japan. This is a scarce 19th century Japanese view of the United States. [6], [3].....

First Edition. A writer for the Rafu Shimpo Japanese newspaper in Los Angeles offers a satirical lexicon of Japanese American terms. The book is reminiscent of Ambrose Bierce's Devil's Dictionary. For example, an early entry is for "寫眞結婚" (shashin kekkon), or Picture Marriage: "The Japanese, who have always imitated foreign.....

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.....