Before Internment

The late Yuji Ichioka was the founding father of the scholarly study of Japanese-American history. His book on the immigrant generation in America, The Issei: The World of the First-Generation Japanese Immigrants, 1885-1924 (1988), is considered a classic. He invented the term Asian American, and trained many of the scholars now teaching Asian American history at colleges and universities.

"Yuji Ichioka invented the term "Asian American..." This posthumous collection of essays—most of which were selected by Ichioka for a book project similar to his first book, Issei—takes a good look at where Ichioka came from as a scholar and activist, and... offers a new window on Japanese history, and the relationship between the government and overseas Japanese. Several of these chapters would work very well in immigration or ethnic studies courses, and the whole should be required reading for graduate students and scholars interested in the past or future of Asian American studies."—H-Net Reviews "Ichioka's ability to comprehend the complexity of the situation raises many fresh, thought-provoking quesitons in a field that appeared near saturation point."Japanese Studies

• @fmct:Contents @toc4:Note on the Translation and Transliteration of Japanese Names and Wordsiii Prefaceiii Editor's Introduction: Yuji Ichioka and New Paradigms in Japanese American History @tocca:Eiichiro Azumaiii @toc1:Part One @toc2:1. Author's Introduction000 2. Dai Nisei Mondai: Changing Japanese Immigrant Conceptions of the Second-Generation Problem, 19021941000 3. Kengakudan: The Origin of Nisei Study Tours of Japan 000 4. Kokugo Gakko: The Debate over the Role of Japanese- Language Schools000 5. A Study in Dualism: James Yoshinori Sakamoto and the Japanese American Courier, 19281942000 @toc1:Part Two @toc2:6. "Unity Within Diversity": Louis Adamic and Japanese Americans000 7. The Meaning of Loyalty: The Case of Kazumaro Buddy Uno 000 8. Japanese Immigrant Nationalism: The Issei and the Sino- Japanese War, 19371941000 9. National Security on the Eve of Pearl Harbor: The 1941 Tachibana Espionage Case and Implicated Issei Leaders 000 10. "Attorney for the Defense": Yamato Ichihashi and Japanese Immigration000 11. The Death of Dr. Honda Rikita: A Tragic Wartime Story 000 @toc1:Part Three @toc2:12. The Future of Japanese American Studies: Prospect of Comparative Historical Perspectives on Nikkei in North and South America000 13. A Historian by Happenstance000 Epilogue: Remembering Yuji @tocca:Gordon H. Chang000 @toc4:Select Bibliography of Japanese Americans During World War II000 Index000