Tokyo Life, New York Dreams: Urban Japanese Visions of America, 1890-1924

by Mitziko Sawada

Book Overview

Tokyo Life, New York Dreams is a bicultural study focusing on Japanese immigrants in New York and the ideas they had about what they would find there. It is one of the first works to consider Japanese immigration to the East Coast, where immigrants were of a different class and social background from the laborers who came to the West Coast and Hawaii. Beginning with a portrait of immigrants' lives in New York City, Mitziko Sawada returns to Tokyo...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520337697
• ISBN13: 9780520337695
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"