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Hawai'i at the Crossroads tells the story of Hawai'i's role in the
emergence of Japanese cultural and political internationalism
during the interwar period. Following World War I, Japan became an
important global power and Hawai'i Japanese represented its largest
and most significant emigrant group. During the 1920s and 1930s,
Hawai'i's Japanese American population provided Japan with a
welcome opportunity to expand its international and intercultural
contacts. This volume, based on papers presented at the 2001
Crossroads Conference by scholars from the U.S., Japan, and
Australia, explores U.S.-Japanese conflict and cooperation in
Hawai'i--truly the crossroads of relations between the two
countries prior to the Pacific War. From the 1880s to 1924, 180,000
Japanese emigrants arrived in the U.S. A little less than half of
the original arrivals settled in Hawai'i; by 1900 they constituted
the largest ethnic group in the Islands, making them of special
interest to Tokyo. Even after its withdrawal from the League of
Nations in 1933, Japan viewed Hawai'i as a largely sympathetic and
supportive ally. The Islands represented Japan's best opportunity
to explain itself to the U.S.; here American and Japanese
diplomats, official and unofficial, could work to resolve the
growing tension between their two countries. While hopes on both
sides of the Pacific were shattered by the attack on Pearl Harbor,
the Japan-Hawai'i connection underlying not a few of them remains
important, informative, and above all compelling. Its further
exploration provided the rationale for the Crossroads Conference
and the essays compiled here.
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