Hawaii at the Crossroads of the U.S. and Japan before the Pacific War /

Hawaii at the Crossroads of the U.S. and Japan before the Pacific War / / ed. by Jon Thares Davidann.

Hawai'i at the Crossroads tells the story of Hawai'i's role in the emergence of Japanese cultural and political internationalism during the interwar period. Following World War I, Japan became an important global power and Hawai'i Japanese represented its largest and most signifi...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
MitwirkendeR:
Akami, Tomoko,
Davidann, Jon,
Gavin, Masako,
Hooper, Paul F.,
Ito, Michiko,
Katagiri, Nobuo,
Monobe, Hiromi,
Noriko, Shimada,
Takagi-Kitayama, Mariko,
Tamura, Eileen H.,
Tomoe, Moriya,
HerausgeberIn:
Davidann, Jon Thares,
Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2008]
©2008
Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (264 p.) :; 1 b&w image
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Dedication and Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Section I. Cooperation and Conflict in U.S.-Japanese Relations in Hawai'i Section I Cooperation and Conflict in U.S.-Japanese Relations in Hawai'i
  • 1. From the Center to the Periphery: Hawai'i and the Pacific Community
  • 2. "Colossal Illusions": The Institute of Pacific Relations in U.S.-Japanese Relations, 1919-1938
  • 3. The Japanese Institute of Pacific Relations and the Kellogg-Briand Pact: The Activities and Limitations of Private Diplomacy
  • 4. Hawai'i, the IPR, and the Japanese Immigration Problem: A Focus on the First and Second IPR Conferences of 1925 and 1927
  • Section II. The Politics of Americanization from Japanese Immigrant Perspectives
  • 5. Americanizing Hawai'i's Japanese: A Transnational Partnership and the Politics of Racial Harmony during the 1920s
  • 6. Social, Cultural, and Spiritual Struggles of the Japanese in Hawai'i: The Case of Okumura Takie and Imamura Yemyo and Americanization
  • 7. In Search of a New Identity: Shiga Shigetaka's Recommendations for Japanese in Hawai'i
  • 8. Buddhism at the Crossroads of the Pacific: Imamura Yemyō and Buddhist Social Ethics
  • 9. In the Strong Wind of the Americanization Movement: The Japanese-Language School Litigation Controversy and Okumura's Educational Campaign
  • List of Contributors
  • Index

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