Things Japanese in Hawaii

by John DeFrancis

$40 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1973 . Oblong 8vo, pp. xiv, 210; text illustrations; red pictorial wrappers; fine. Japanese immigration to Hawaii began in the 1880s, when poor farmers from the south of Japan particularly the Ryukyus were sold dreams of gainful employment by plantation owners. Many ended up settling in Hawaii permanently, and Japanese became one of the largest ethnic groups on the islands. This is a survey of all of the ways Japanese

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