| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.1

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Japanese Pride, American Prejudice: Modifying the Exclusion Clause of the 1924 Immigration Act. By Izumi Hirobe. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. xvi, 327 pp. $49.50, ISBN 0-8047-3813-0.)

Under the hypothesis that "non-governmental groups can influence American foreign relations," Izumi Hirobe investigates how religious and business groups tried in the 1920s and 1930s to repair U.S.-Japanese relations damaged by the Japanese Exclusion Act of 1924 by amending the law to give Japan a nominal immigration quota. He conducted exhaustive research, examining voluminous English and Japanese sources including personal papers and religious, civic, and business organization records. Throughout the book, the author quotes profusely from editorials in American and Japanese newspapers, leaders in the anti-Japanese and pro-Japanese groups in the United States, American and Japanese politicians and diplomats, and Japanese military brass and right-wing leaders, as well as religious and business leaders. He does so, however, without critically evaluating the relative weight and importance of these comments and statements in the appropriate national and international context. . . .

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