Japanese Conspiracy - The Oahu Sugar Strike of 1920

A dramatic tale of how a little-remembered strike in Hawaii fanned the flames of anti-Japanese sentiment in the United States and, the author argues, ultimately led to the infamous Japanese Exclusion Act of 1924.

List of contents

Preface 
Prologue: A Dynamite Bomb Explodes 

1 The Japanese Village in the Pacific 
2 A Person to Be Watched 
3 The Oahu Strike Begins 
4 The Japanese Conspiracy 
5 The Conspiracy Trial
6 Reopening Chinese Immigration 
7 The Japanese Exclusion Act

Notes
Bibliography 
Index

About the author

Masayo Umezawa Duus is a nonfiction writer widely published in Japan. The Japanese edition of The Japanese Conspiracy won the Oya Soichi Prize and the Sincho Gakugei Prize, the two most distinguished nonfiction prizes in Japan. Her works in English include Tokyo Rose: Orphan of the Pacific (1979) and Unlikely Liberators: Men of the 100th and the 442nd (1987).

Summary

In early 1920 in Hawaii, Japanese sugar cane workers, faced with spiraling living expenses, defiantly struck for a wage increase to $1.25 per day. The event shook the traditional power structure in Hawaii. This book demonstrates that the event had consequences reaching all the way up to the eve of World War II.

Product details

• Authors: Masayo Umezawa Duus, Duus Masayo Umezawa
• Assisted by: Peter Duus (Editor), Beth Cary (Translation), Cary Beth (Translation)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.1999
• EAN: 9780520204850
• ISBN: 978-0-520-20485-0
• No. of pages: 386
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Hawaii, Ethnic Studies, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), History of the Americas, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Strikes, Industrial relations, occupational health and safety, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General, Hawaiian Islands, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, Hawaii / Hawaiʻi (State of)