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Description
Writings and grant proposal relating to nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century Japanese immigration to the United
States. Includes transcribed copies of documents from this period.
Background
Yasuo Sakata has been a leading scholar of Japanese immigration and emigration studies for decades in the United States and
Japan. He received a BA in history and PhD in East Asian History from the University of California– Los Angeles. He was instrumental
in compiling the Japanese American Research Project and published A Buried Past: An Annotated Bibliography of the Japanese
American Research Project Collection (University of California Press, 1974), with Yuji Ichioka, and Fading Footsteps of the
Issei: An Annotated Check List of the Manuscript Holdings of the Japanese American Research Project Collection (Asian American
Studies Center, University of California at Los Angeles, 1992). After returning to Japan in 1990, he taught in the Faculty
of International Studies, Osaka Gakuin University. He also served as the president of the Japanese Association for Migration
Studies. Other notable publications include Tairitsu to dakyō: 1930-nendai no Nichi- Bei tsūshō kankei (Conflict and compromise:
US- Japan trade relationships in the 1930s) (Daiichi Hōki, Heisei 6, 1994), coedited with Kazuo Ueyama, and Meiji Nichi- Bei
bōeki kotohajime: Chokuyu no shishi Arai Ryōichirō to sono jidai (The beginning of the Japan- US trade in Meiji: The era of
Arai Ryoichiro, a pioneer of direct trade)(Tōkyōdō Shuppan, 1996).
Extent
72 manuscript boxes, 4 oversize boxes
(38.5 Linear Feet)
Restrictions
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Availability
The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual
or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.