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John E. Van Sant. Pacific Pioneers: Japanese Journeys to America and Hawaii, 1850–80. Foreword by Roger Daniels. (The Asian American Experience.) Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. 2000. Pp. xii, 191. $37.50.

The study of Japanese-American history has long been dominated by work on the Nisei, or second generation. It has focused particularly on the tribulations they faced in internment camps and on the heroic exploits of Japanese-American soldiers during World War II. Their parents, the Issei, who also were in those camps and who had lived several decades in the United States before the war, have been slighted in historical writing. Part of the problem is that few scholars know sufficient Japanese to work in Japanese-language archival materials, which are abundant yet almost untouched. 1

John E. Van Sant has the language skills to do archival work, coupled with a solid grasp of Japanese history. He has produced a small but important book to supplement recent work by Yuji Ichioka, Mitziko Sawada, and Linda Tamura, and perhaps to point toward future scholarship that might be undertaken by these and other scholars. . . .

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