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Beikoku shakai no ankokumen. Daitokai no uraomote

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Description: Analysis of American society in the late 1920s by an anonymous Japanese observer living in the United States. The author comments on a wide range of subjects including housing, food, transport, labor unions, courtship, gender roles, marriage and religion. The author shares candid observations and comparisions between American and Japan.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: Showa 3 [1928]
Call number: 653770
Provenance: Purchased from Asia Bookroom, March 2022.
Dimensions: 19 cm
Associated people: Uno, Kyōji,
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Letters written by Kaneko Kiichi to Josephine Conger from 1904 to 1905, while the author was a student at Harvard University. Conger and Kaneko were later married and moved to Girard, Kansas, where they co-founded The Socialist Woman (renamed The Progressive Woman) magazine. Kaneko's letters incluide his thoughts on literature, the status of women, American culture, love and marriage. He also responded to many of the clippings of Conger's writing that she had sent him as well as referencing his own publications in the US and Japan. The English originals are transcribed with their Japanese translations on facing pages. The publication was intended to help Japanese students learning English. Although Conger's letters are not included, this collection offers a rare glimpse into the courtship of a mixed race couple during a period when Asian-Anglo marriages were outlawed in many states.

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The Wormwood review v. 19 no. 4 (issue 76)

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Anonymous medical notebook

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