| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 37.4

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| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 37.4 | The History Cooperative

*Between Two Empires: Race, History, and Transnationalism in Japanese America*. By Eiichiro Azuma. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. xii + 306 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $65.00, cloth; $21.95, paper.)
This is an exceptionally interesting book, offering an unusual perspective on the Japanese American experience in (mostly) California prior to 1942. Eiichiro Azuma has relied upon extensive Japanese language sources to a greater extent than most works on this subject. However, readers should pretty much ignore the introduction, because it gets seriously bogged down in terminological discourses that have little relevance to the rest of the book.	1
Azuma presents this immigrant people in a triadic relationship between the Japanese and American "empires." Immigrants struggled for acceptance only to be rebuffed by the triple combination of the Alien Land Acts, the U. S. Supreme Court's Ozawa decision affirming the Issei's ineligibility for citizenship, and the 1924 Immigration Act, which largely closed the gateway to America for Japanese even more than had the Gentleman's Agreement.	. . .

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