| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.2

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Hainichi iminho to nichibei kankei: "Hanihara shokan" no shinso to sono "Judainaru kekka" (The Japanese exclusion act and U.S.-Japanese relations: The truth behind the "Hanihara note" and its "grave consequences"). By Toshihiro Minohara. (Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 2003. viii, 342 pp. ¥10,000, ISBN 4-00-024412-4.) In Japanese.
The Japanese took the passage of the Immigration Act of 1924 as a great grievance. Anti-American demonstrations erupted throughout Japan. In Tokyo, a forty-year-old man committed harakiri by the American embassy site, and two men took down and carried away the American flag flying at the embassy. A large crowd of over twenty thousand held a protest rally against the law. The people in the major cities demanded a boycott of American goods, and Japanese movie companies banned importation of American movies.	1
The law that incited such violent reactions is the subject of Professor Toshihiro Minohara's book, a revision of his Kobe University dissertation. He tells a familiar story, heavily relying on the works of such scholars as Toru Aruga, Sadao Asada, Roger Daniels, Robert Divine, E. P. Hutchinson, Charles Neu, and Rodman Paul, but the author, with his mixed American and Japanese background, attempts to bring about a fuller picture from both sides, treating it within a broad framework of American immigration policy and of Japanese-American relations.	. . .

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