Yankee Samurai
Title | Yankee Samurai PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph Daniel Harrington |
Publisher | |
Pages | 392 |
Release | 1979 |
Genre | Japanese Americans |
ISBN |
Author Joseph D. Harrington has written an informative and insightful history of the Nisei (Second-generation Japanese Americans), working for the U.S. armed forces in the Pacific during World War II. This is no whitewashed narrative, as it exposes U.S. internment camps, prejudices, and the frustrations of patriotic Japanese-Americans who wanted to fight for their country, but were initially rebuffed. As the book relates, not all Nisei were in favor of fighting, and even those that did encountered another kind of prejudice at first, from Hawaiian-born Nisei who more than occasionally felt that continental Japanese-Americans just didn't measure up, linguistically-speaking. Like other children of immigrants, the Nisei were, to a large extent, caught between Japanese tradition and U.S. culture. The concept of honor, an essential element in Japanese-American family life, ended up serving U.S. military interests well. The author has done an outstanding job of uncovering names and telling little-known stories. Especially fascinating are the ones that describe the analytical acumen of Nisei translators.
Yankee Samurai
Title | Yankee Samurai PDF eBook |
Author | Dennis Laurie |
Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers |
Pages | 406 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780887305528 |
Based on 250 interviews with American and Japanese managers and executives working for 31 different Japanese firms in the U.S., Yankee Samurai tells the fascinating inside story of a clash between two cultures--told by people who are actually living it. Laurie also identifies the potential Achilles heel of the Japanese: their inability to treat foreigners as valued employees.
Yankee Samurai
Title | Yankee Samurai PDF eBook |
Author | Dennis Laurie |
Publisher | |
Pages | 376 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Corporate culture |
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The Yankee Samurai
Title | The Yankee Samurai PDF eBook |
Author | Kenneth D. Frost |
Publisher | Vantage Press |
Pages | 148 |
Release | 1987-10-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780533072446 |
Yankees and Samurai
Title | Yankees and Samurai PDF eBook |
Author | Foster Rhea Dulles |
Publisher | New York, Harper |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 1965 |
Genre | Japan |
ISBN |
Nisei linguists: Japanese Americans in the Military Intelligence Service During World War II (Paperbound)
Title | Nisei linguists: Japanese Americans in the Military Intelligence Service During World War II (Paperbound) PDF eBook |
Author | James C. McNaughton |
Publisher | Government Printing Office |
Pages | 536 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Japanese Americans |
ISBN | 9780160867057 |
"This book tells the story of an unusual group of American soldiers in World War II, second-generation Japanese Americans (Nisei) who served as interpreters and translators in the Military Intelligence Service."--Preface.
Japanese American History
Title | Japanese American History PDF eBook |
Author | Brian Niiya |
Publisher | VNR AG |
Pages | 448 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780816026807 |
Produced under the auspices of the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles, this comprehensive reference culls information from primary sources--Japanese-language texts and documents, oral histories, and other previously neglected or obscured materials--to document the history and nature of the Japanese American experience as told by the people who lived it. The volume is divided into three major sections: a chronology with some 800 entries; a 400-entry encyclopedia covering people, events, groups, and cultural terms; and an annotated bibliography of major works on Japanese Americans. Includes about 80 bandw illustrations and photographs. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR