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Book Review
| Senso to Imin no Shakaishi: Hawai Nikkei Amerikajin no Taiheiyo Senso (A social history of war and immigrants: Japanese immigrants' experiences in Hawaii during World War II). By Noriko Shimada. (Tokyo: Gendaishiryo Shuppan, 2004. ix, 311 pp. ¥3200, ISBN 4-87785-124-0.) In Japanese.
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| The internment of Japanese Americans during World War II has become a popular subject in the last two decades, producing a continuous stream of publications. The fate of 160,000 Japanese Americans in Hawaii, compared to that of their 110,000 mainland cousins, however, has received far less scholarly attention, with the notable exception of those Nisei (second generation) who fought in the U.S. army in the European theater. That neglect was also true in the work of Japanese scholars until the publication of Noriko Shimada's book. Using largely untapped wartime surveys and Japanese-language newspapers and records, and conducting a number of interviews, the author examined several facets of the Japanese American experience during and immediately after the war. |
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