Tokyo life, New York dreams : urban Japanese visions of America, 1890-1924
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Tokyo life, New York dreams : urban Japanese visions of America, 1890-1924
University of California Press, c1996
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Sources consulted: p. 245-261
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This bicultural study focuses on Japanese immigrants in New York and the ideas they had about what they would find there. It considers Japanese immigration to the East Coast, where immigrants were of a different class and social background from the labourers who came to the West Coast and Hawaii. Beginning with a portrait of immigrants' lives in New York City, the study then examines the pre-immigration experience, using popular Japanese literature to trace the origins of immigrant perceptions of the USA. Along with discussions of economics and politics in Tokyo, the book explores the prevalent images, ideologies, social myths, and attitudes of late Meiji and early Taisho Japan. The narrative draws on guide books, magazines, success literature, and popular novels to illuminate the formation of ideas about work, class, gender relations, and freedom in American society. This study analyzes the Japanese construction of a mythic America, perceived as a homomgeneous and exotic "other".
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