Japanese in Latin America

Daniel M. Masterson is a professor of history at the United States Naval Academy. He is the author of Militarism and Politics in Latin America: Peru from SÁnchez Cerro to Sendero Luminoso and Fuerza armada en el Peru moderno, 1930–2000. Sayaka Funada-Classen is a researcher at the Institute of International Cultural Studies at Tsuda College.

A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2005."This highly readable and solidly researched book is a welcome addition to the Asian American Experience series. Its global dimension and emphasis on ethnic adaptation make it an important contribution to all disciplines concerned with comparative immigration."--American Historical Review "The Japanese in Latin America provides a fine overview of the story of Japanese migration and the creation of Nikkei ethnicity in Latin America. Working with secondary sources based on national experiences, as well as primary sources and oral histories, Masterson and Funada-Classen navigate between temporal and regional specificities and broad patterns."--The Americas "Provides a wealth of information, in addition to an articulate analysis and systematic comparisons, on a subject that has received scant attention in migration scholarship. But what also makes this scholarly publication especially valuable is that it presents historical comparisons at distinct points with the Japanese immigration to the United States."--Latin American Politics and Society "A first-rate piece of scholarship. It provides an invaluable overview of the history of the Japanese on the continent, with extraordinary richness of detail throughout."--Samuel L. Baily, author of Immigrants in the Lands of Promise