Japanese American History in Hawaii and Seventy Five Years of Immigration, 1964

J H. Okahata

First Edition

Okahata, J.H., A History of Japanese Immigrants in Hawaii, 1964, documents the institutional, labor, religious, educational, military, and civic systems through which Japanese immigrants and their descendants shaped Hawaii from the late nineteenth century through statehood. Published for the seventy-fifth anniversary of Japanese immigration to Hawaii, the book supports research into Japanese diaspora history, plantation labor, Asian American identity, transpacific community formation, and the political emergence of Japanese Americans in the Pacific. Its bilingual structure and extensive photographic record show how Issei and Nisei history was preserved by community leadership in the postwar period.

Okahata, J.H. A History of Japanese Immigrants in Hawaii. Honolulu: United Japanese Society of Hawaii, 1964. First edition. Published to commemorate the seventy-fifth anniversary of Japanese immigration to Hawaii. Japanese and English text. 714 pages. Extensively illustrated with black-and-white photographs, maps, and facsimiles, including portraits, military photographs, agricultural scenes, plantation labor views, school groups, community gatherings, parades, and cultural events. Original blue cloth with gilt spine titles, housed in original printed slipcase. Large 8vo.

The volume documents Japanese immigrant community formation through organizational history, chronological narrative, photographic evidence, and bilingual publication, revealing how plantation labor, language schools, religious institutions, civic associations, wartime military service, and public commemoration operated in practice across generations. Photographic sections include cane-cutting laborers in 1902, Japanese-language school students, prominent community leaders, and mid-century “Cherry Blossom Queen” portraits, linking labor history with public culture and postwar ethnic self-representation. Edge wear and some fraying to slipcase and covers; spine sunned; binding solid; interior clean with occasional toning; overall very good condition. A major community-produced documentary history of Japanese immigration, labor, and identity formation in Hawaii.

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