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Nichi-Bei jūshoroku. No. 20

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Description: Japanese American directory, the bulk of the directory lists people and businesses in California, but the last 98 pages also list other states in the United States and in Mexico. Names are given in Japanese, addresses are given in English. Nichibei, or The Japanese American News, was a San Francisco based newspaper that operated from 1899 to 1942.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1924
Call number: 653945
Creator: Nichi-Bei Shinbunsha, San Francisco(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Kate Mitas, Bookseller, July 2022.
Dimensions: 24 cm
Associated organization: Japanese American News.

Nichi-Bei sahō no jōshiki

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Book on both Japanese and United States etiquette aimed towards the 1st generation Japanese American ("Issei") audience.

642392

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Publication from communal society Alternatives Foundation. Includes essays, articles, reviews, classified ads, and a directory of other communal societies in the United States.

491990:004

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Panama Taiheiyō Bankoku Daihakurankai. Dai 1 = The Panama Pacific International Exposition

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Published in anticipation of the 1915 Panama Pacific International Exposition celebrating the opening of the Panama Canal. Gives plans and aims of the Exposition as well as discussing the history of the Panama Canal and United States-Japan trade relations and the history of Japanese migrants to the United States. Extensive advertisements of Japanese businesses and directory of Japanese residents in California are also included.

653618

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Information bulletin (American Friends Service Committee. Pacific Coast Branch)

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The newsletters, which were published several times a year from February 1942 to February 1946, supplied news of the committee's work to assist the Japanese Americans who were relocated by the U.S. Government in 1942. The newsletters discuss several of the relocation centers including Central Utah, Gila River, Manzanar, and Poston. The bulletins also talk about the Tulare Assembly Center, the National Japanese American Student Relocation Council, and Japanese American soldiers. The last two issues, which were published after the relocation centers were closed, discuss Japanese resettlement in the West. Issues 5, 6, and 17 are photocopies

mssHM 66489 (1-17)

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Hokubei nenkan

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Year book and directory published by the North American Times, a Japanese ethnic paper based in Seattle.

653034

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Civilian exclusion order. No. 22

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Broadside instructing Japanese American residents in the west downtown area of the City of Los Angeles that they will not be pernitted to remain in the designated area as of May 1, 1942. It also instructs "a responsible member of each family, and each individual living alone" to report to the Civil Control Station at 2314 South Vermont on April 25 and 26, 1942. Part of a series of proclamations posted prior to the mass incarceration of the Japanese population of the Los Angeles area.

481412

Nichi-Bei jūshoroku. No. 20

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