Contents
Preface xiii
Chronology of Japanese American History xvii
Part I
Context of Japanese Emigration: Coming to America
Historical Overview 1
Alien Land Law (1913) 8
Anti-Japanese Movement 10
Draft Resisters 13
Ex Parte Mitsuye Endo (1944) 15
Executive Order 9066 18
442nd Regimental Combat Team/100th Infantry Battalion 20
Gentlemen’s Agreement (1907–1908) 22
Harada House 24
Hawai‘ian Sugar Plantations 27
Hirabayashi v. United States (1943) 29
Immigration Act of 1924 32
Internment, World War II 33
Japanese American Communities 41
Japanese American Exclusion 46
Japanese American History before 1945 51
Japanese American Population Trends 54
Japanese American War Brides 57
Japanese American Women 60
Japanese American Women in the 1930s 63
Japanese Immigration to Hawai‘i 67
Japanese Immigration to Latin/South America 70
Japanese Immigration to Peru 75
Kooskia Internment Camp 77
