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Title: Japanese diaspora collection
Date (inclusive): 1889-2019
Collection Number: 2017C46
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: In Japanese and English
Physical Description:
6 manuscript boxes, 11 oversize boxes, 2 oversize folders
(15.17 Linear Feet)
Physical Description:
528 digital files
(.53 GB Gigabytes)
Abstract: Reports, pamphlets, postcards, other printed matter, photographs, and digital materials relating to Japanese immigration to
the United States and elsewhere, the Japanese community in the United States, and Japanese American internment during World
War II.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
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.
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 2017, 2023.
[Identification of item], Japanese diaspora collection, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Scope and Content of Collection
The Japanese diaspora collection consists of reports, rare historical documents, digital files, rosters, photographs, maps,
pamphlets, posters, postcards, and other printed matter relating to the Japanese diaspora, primarily to the Americas. The
collection includes series such as the Japantowns of San Francisco and Los Angeles, the departing ports of Yokohama and Kobe
in Japan, Japanese export industry and shipping companies, internment camps during World War II, Japanese agriculture and
flower growing businesses in the United States, and Japanese government survey reports on the Japanese settlement in Brazil,
among others.
Maui News Special Edition: Complimentary to the Japanese Community of Maui Occasion Enthronement H.M. Hirohito, 1928 November
10 separated from collection in April 2022 and placed in Japanese Hawaiian newspaper collection (2018C77).
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Japanese Americans -- Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945
Japan -- Emigration and immigration
Japanese -- United States