On a Collision Course: The Dawn of Japanese Migration in the Nineteenth Century - Couverture souple

Sakata, Yasuo

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0817923551 ISBN 13 : 9780817923556

Editeur : Hoover Institution Press,U.S., 2020

Synopsis

In five meticulously researched essays, Yasuo Sakata examines Japanese migration to the United States from an international and deeply historical perspective. Sakata argues the importance of using resources from both sides of the Pacific and taking a holistic view that incorporates US-Japanese diplomatic relationships, the mass media, the American view of Asian populations, and Japan's self-image as a modern, westernized nation. In his first essay, Sakata provides an overview of resources and warns against their gaps and biases; those that remain may reflect culturally based inaccuracies. In the other essays, Sakata examines Japanese migration through a multifaceted lens, incorporating an understanding of immigration, labor, working conditions, diplomatic relationships, and the effects of war and mass media. He further emphasizes the distinctions between the dekasegi period, the transition period, and the imin period. He also discusses the self-image among Japanese as distinct from the Chinese, more westernized and able to assimilate--a distinction lost on Americans, who tended to lump the Asian groups together, both in treatment and under the law. Japan's Meiji era brought the opening of Japanese ports to Western nations and Japan's eventual overseas expansion. This translated volume of Sakata's well-researched work brings a transnational perspective to this critical chapter of early Japanese American history.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Masako Iino is former president, professor emeritus, and a trustee of Tsuda University, Tokyo; and chair of the academic advisory committee, Japanese Overseas Migration Museum.

Yasuo Sakata, a leading scholar of Japanese migration studies in both Japan and the United States, taught at Osaka Gakuin University and served as president of the Japanese Association for Migration Studies.

Kaoru Ueda is the curator of the Japanese Diaspora Collection at the Hoover Institution Library & Archives, where she manages the Japanese Diaspora Initiative and the Hoji Shinbun Digital Collection.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Hoover Institution Press,U.S.
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0817923551
• ISBN 13: 9780817923556
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 300
• Éditeur: Ueda Kaoru
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