SOGA, Yasutaro.

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Gojunenkan no Hawai kaiko ("My Fifty Years: Memoirs of Hawaii"). First edition in book form, expanded with statistical tables related to Japanese immigration to Hawai'i. Soga arrived in Hawai'i in 1896 and remained there until he died, building his Nippu Jiji newspaper. He was detained for his activism in the 1910s and as part of the Japanese internment policies of the 1940s, which he covers in this work.Soga (1873-1957) spent his childhood in Tokyo before moving to Hawai'i to help his family business. In 1899, he began working at the newspaper Hawaii Shimpo, where he fought for compensation for Japanese and Chinese communities after the 1900 Chinatown Fire. He quit that newspaper and bought out the Yamato Shimbun in 1905, rechristening it Nippu Jiji the following year. In 1909, he took up the cause of exploited Japanese plantation workers, effectively leading a strike that resulted in his first imprisonment.Over the following decades, he made the Nippu Jiji the most successful Japanese-American newspaper on the islands. His articles championed Japanese-language schools, reported on US-Japan relations, and became renowned in the community. After the attack on Pearl Harbor he was interned in American concentration camps on the mainland. After the war, he returned to Hawai'i and naturalized in 1952.Soga's autobiography was first serialized in the Hawai Times from 8 October 1946 to 2 July 1948 in 309 parts. This edition is expanded with a chronological table of Japanese immigrat

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