Hawai'i at the Crossroads of the U. S. and Japan Before the Pacific War

by Davidann, Jon Thares

• ISBN13: 9780824832254
• ISBN10: 0824832256
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-11-01
• Publisher: Univ of Hawaii Pr

Summary

This text tells the story of Hawaii's role in the emergence of Japanese cultural and political internationalism during the interwar period. It explores US-Japanese conflict and cooperation in Hawaii.

Table of Contents

Dedication and Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Cooperation and Conflict in U.S.-Japanese Relations in Hawai'i
From the Center to the Periphery: Hawai'i and the Pacific Community	p. 13
"Colossal Illusions": The Institute of Pacific Relations in U.S.-Japanese Relations, 1919-1938	p. 42
The Japanese Institute of Pacific Relations and the Kellogg-Briand Pact: The Activities and Limitations of Private Diplomacy	p. 68
Hawai'i, the IPR, and the Japanese Immigration Problem: A Focus on the First and Second IPR Conferences of 1925 and 1927	p. 96
The Politics of Americanization from Japanese Immigrant Perspectives
Americanizing Hawai'i's Japanese: A Transnational Partnership and the Politics of Racial Harmony during the 1920s	p. 119
Social, Cultural, and Spiritual Struggles of the Japanese in Hawai'i: The Case of Okumura Takie and Imamura Yemyo and Americanization	p. 146
In Search of a New Identity: Shiga Shigetaka's Recommendations for Japanese in Hawai'i	p. 171
Buddhism at the Crossroads of the Pacific: Imamura Yemyo and Buddhist Social Ethics	p. 192
In the Strong Wind of the Americanization Movement: The Japanese-Language School Litigation Controversy and Okumura's Educational Campaign	p. 217
List of Contributors	p. 241
Index	p. 243
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