John E. Van Sant is an associate professor in the Department of History at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is a coeditor of Far East, Down South: Asians in the American South.

"This excellent study of the first Japanese sojourners to America and Hawaii places them within the context of national developments on both sides of the Pacific. . . . Van Sant wonderfully narrates and analyzes their engaging stories, those of ship-wrecked sailors, college students, workers, and even some utopians."--Choice"Van Sant has the language skills to do archival work, coupled with a solid grasp of Japanese history. He has produced a small but important work."--Paul Spickard, American Historical Review"A solid, well-written study. Featuring splendid biographical profiles, it provides excellent insight into Japan's modernization and the origins of Japanese immigration to the United States."--Robert D. Parmet, International Migration Review

• CoverTitle pageCopyrightCONTENTSForeword, by Roger DanielsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Transnational History, Transitions, and WorldviewsOne: Joseph Heco, a Castaway in AmericaTwo: Ryugakusel, Rutgers, and the American ExperienceThree: Niijima Jo, Japanese PuritanFour: From Satsuma to UtopiaFive: The Gannenmono, Eugene Van Reed, and the Emergence of Japan-Hawaii-U.S. RelationsSix: From Aizu to Gold HillEpilogue: Japan and the United States, 1880-1924NotesBibliographyIndexBack cover

John E. Van Sant is an associate professor in the Department of History at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is a coeditor of Far East, Down South: Asians in the American South.

"This excellent study of the first Japanese sojourners to America and Hawaii places them within the context of national developments on both sides of the Pacific. . . . Van Sant wonderfully narrates and analyzes their engaging stories, those of ship-wrecked sailors, college students, workers, and even some utopians."--Choice"Van Sant has the language skills to do archival work, coupled with a solid grasp of Japanese history. He has produced a small but important work."--Paul Spickard, American Historical Review"A solid, well-written study. Featuring splendid biographical profiles, it provides excellent insight into Japan's modernization and the origins of Japanese immigration to the United States."--Robert D. Parmet, International Migration Review

• CoverTitle pageCopyrightCONTENTSForeword, by Roger DanielsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Transnational History, Transitions, and WorldviewsOne: Joseph Heco, a Castaway in AmericaTwo: Ryugakusel, Rutgers, and the American ExperienceThree: Niijima Jo, Japanese PuritanFour: From Satsuma to UtopiaFive: The Gannenmono, Eugene Van Reed, and the Emergence of Japan-Hawaii-U.S. RelationsSix: From Aizu to Gold HillEpilogue: Japan and the United States, 1880-1924NotesBibliographyIndexBack cover

John E. Van Sant is an associate professor in the Department of History at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is a coeditor of Far East, Down South: Asians in the American South.

"This excellent study of the first Japanese sojourners to America and Hawaii places them within the context of national developments on both sides of the Pacific. . . . Van Sant wonderfully narrates and analyzes their engaging stories, those of ship-wrecked sailors, college students, workers, and even some utopians."--Choice"Van Sant has the language skills to do archival work, coupled with a solid grasp of Japanese history. He has produced a small but important work."--Paul Spickard, American Historical Review"A solid, well-written study. Featuring splendid biographical profiles, it provides excellent insight into Japan's modernization and the origins of Japanese immigration to the United States."--Robert D. Parmet, International Migration Review

• CoverTitle pageCopyrightCONTENTSForeword, by Roger DanielsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Transnational History, Transitions, and WorldviewsOne: Joseph Heco, a Castaway in AmericaTwo: Ryugakusel, Rutgers, and the American ExperienceThree: Niijima Jo, Japanese PuritanFour: From Satsuma to UtopiaFive: The Gannenmono, Eugene Van Reed, and the Emergence of Japan-Hawaii-U.S. RelationsSix: From Aizu to Gold HillEpilogue: Japan and the United States, 1880-1924NotesBibliographyIndexBack cover