From Okinawa to the Americas: Hana Yamagawa and Her Reminiscences of a Century

by Hana Yamagawa

Book Overview

Between 1889 and 1940 more than 40,000 Okinawan contract laborers emigrated to plantations in Hawaii, Brazil, the Philippines, and Peru. In 1912 seventeen-year-old Hana Kaneshi accompanied her husband and brother to South America and dreamed of returning home in two years' time a wealthy young woman. Edited by her daughter Akiko, Hana's richly detailed memoir is a rare, first-hand account of the life of a female Okinawan immigrant in the New World...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824835514
• ISBN13: 9780824835514
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.4"