... strokes. So historians of this period may be left wondering, among other things, if the distinctive identities of Hawaiian Nisei shaped their emigration to Japan, or whether (or which) Japanese immigrant communities encouraged Nisei migration and saw it as a desirable outcome. And while Jin rightly flays...

...: Syntax and Pragmatics. By M I W A N I S H I MURA. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 1997. xx, 176 pp. $43.95. This is a study of the bilingual speech of second generation Japanese (Nisei) living in Toronto, Canada. The Japanese community in Toronto grew after "many Japanese evacuated to the Interior...

... of the stories, conveyed in letters, oral histories, and other documentation, told by the second generation nisei who were allowed to begin or complete higher education requirements after release from American concentration camps. Moreover, he was impressed by the nisei, who much later began providing moral...

... and Festival in Los Angeles, 193'4-1990. By L O N KURASHIGE. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2002. xxii, 274 pp. $45.00 (cloth); $18.95 (paper). This book-length history of Little Tokyo's Nisei Week treats this typical celebratory ethnic festival as a lens onto the evolution...

... the solidity of the Japanese-American "ethnic economy." Subsequently, Nisei increasingly left the ethnic group for the professions and other work in the nonethnic economy. 160 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Comparing Nisei small businessmen with other Nisei in part 2 allows the authors to investigate, using JARP...

... of the bilingual speech of second generation Japanese (Nisei) living in Toronto, Canada. The Japanese community in Toronto grew after "many Japanese evacuated to the Interior of Canada for the duration of World War II moved to the Toronto area at the war's end" (p. 39). Many of these Niseis grew up speaking...

... and Festival in Los Angeles, 193'4-1990. By L O N KURASHIGE. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2002. xxii, 274 pp. $45.00 (cloth); $18.95 (paper). This book-length history of Little Tokyo's Nisei Week treats this typical celebratory ethnic festival as a lens onto the evolution...

... for Asian Studies, Inc. 1982 1982 160 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Comparing Nisei small businessmen with other Nisei in part 2 allows the authors to investigate, using JARP data, the bearing of economic activity on ethnic affiliation and to observe that, as the former is diluted, the latter also dissolves...

... (paper). 546 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES of the conversation participants. "Real" code-switching also serves to mark different phases of a conversation, or simply to make parts of the narration livelier. Nisei speakers do intersperse Japanese phrases such as chotto, nanchuu no?, moo and anoo...

... and Character" concerns itself primarily with the nisei. His analysis is persuasive and his comments on the nisei parents' view of their sansei children ring true. It will win him no friends in the Third World. Toward the end of his paper there occurs a passage (p. 305) which might well be the epitaph...

... STUDIES Stanford M. Lyman's contribution on "Generation and Character" concerns itself primarily with the nisei. His analysis is persuasive and his comments on the nisei parents' view of their sansei children ring true. It will win him no friends in the Third World. Toward the end of his paper...

...: Indiana University Press, 1991. 178 pp. The early history of Japanese Americans, like that of Chinese Americans, is punctuated by racial bias and cruel discrimination. Their past hardship is best illustrated by the internment of the West Coast Issei and Nisei during World War II. The changed political...

... of relocation and eventual resettlement. Although the emphasis is on the Nisei, there is also an excellent account of the parent generation. The writing in this section is a sound blend of straightforward description, statistical analysis, and what seems to be reliable scientific generalization. The second...

...P.H.C. BOOK REVIEWS 509 been deprived of liberty and civil rights and been thrown into concentration camps? Their unshaken patriotism should be a lasting inspiration to all Americans. It is a sad reflection on our times that respect for Nisei increased primarily as their Distinguished Service...

... deprived of liberty and civil rights and been thrown into concentration camps? Their unshaken patriotism should be a lasting inspiration to all Americans. It is a sad reflection on our times that respect for Nisei increased primarily as their Distinguished Service Crosses and Purple Hearts multiplied...

... patriotism should be a lasting inspiration to all Americans. It is a sad reflection on our times that respect for Nisei increased primarily as their Distinguished Service Crosses and Purple Hearts multiplied. It is most refreshing, therefore, to see the publication of Allen H. Eaton's Beauty Behind Barbed...

... as a student who attended Dakota Wesleyan. The main body of the work, and its major contribution, comes in the form of details of the lives of the nisei as they encounter the rigors of relocation. There is no apparent logic to the divisions of the three chapters, "Exemplars," "Yearbook Portraits...

... University Press, 1991. 178 pp. The early history of Japanese Americans, like that of Chinese Americans, is punctuated by racial bias and cruel discrimination. Their past hardship is best illustrated by the internment of the West Coast Issei and Nisei during World War II. The changed political and economic...

..., Nikkei hangyakuji {Japanese American traitor]. The translation is virtually intact. The kibei are a special subset of second generation Japanese-Americans known as nisei. Born in the United States, kibei received some years of education in Japan before returning. The term literally means "return...

.... These volumes also contain many important enclosures. Very few American personnel operating in Korea between 1945 and 1948 spoke or read the Korean language, and barely a few dozen Koreans were able to converse in English with facility. The U.S. Army therefore relied, at least in the beginning, on Nisei...