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Essays on the early history of San Francisco's immigrant community and financing pre-war Japanese America—insights from records of the Yokohama Specie Bank and related materials from the Japanese American History Archives-Seizo Oka Collection (JAHA).
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Welcome to our fascinating historical gems, illuminated by the invaluable records of the Yokohama Specie Bank (YSB) and related JAHA-Seizo Oka collections. Our contributing researchers delve into the day-to-day accounts of Japanese American businesses and community activities and offer insights into the past.
Eiichiro Azuma sheds light on the early Japanese American community, exploring their journey toward forming a unified identity as Japanese. Ryosuke Maeda contextualizes the Japanese American community within the global financial history. Kay Ueda offers a glimpse into the opulent banquet of Bay Area Japanese American leaders in 1929. A cornerstone of the Japanese American community was the Japanese-language schools, and Toyotomi Morimoto highlights the flagship school, Kinmon Gakuen.
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Grandeur of Japanese American Society in 1929 San Francisco Bay Area
By: Kaoru (Kay) Ueda & Eiko Kawabe Brown
AUTHOR BIOS
EIICHIRO AZUMA
Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of American History, University of Pennsylvania
EIKO KAWABE BROWN
Graduate Student, Waseda University
RYOSUKE MAEDA
Associate Professor, Japanese Political and Diplomatic History, Hokkaido University
TOYOTOMI MORIMOTO
Professor, School of Human Sciences, Waseda University
MEREDITH ODA
Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Reno
YOKO TSUKUDA
Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Seijo University
KAORU (KAY) UEDA
Curator of the Japanese Diaspora Collections and Research Fellow, Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University
ANDREW WAY LEONG
Assistant Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley.
RYO YOSHIDA
Professor, Faculty of Social Studies, Doshisha University
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