Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Note on Sources and Terminology xv
5. Introduction: The Making of a Japanese American Diaspora in the Pacific 1
6. 1 From Citizens to Emigrants: The Japanese American Transnational Generation in the U.S.- Japan Borderlands 14
7. 2 From Citizens to the Stateless: Migration, Exclusion, and Nisei Citizenship 38
8. 3 From Citizens to Enemy Aliens: The “Kibei Problem” and Japanese American Loyalty During World War II 56
9. 4 Beyond Two Homelands: Kibei Transnationalism in the Making of a Japanese American Diaspora 84
10. 5 Between Two Empires: Nisei Citizenship and Loyalty in the Pacific Theater 114
11. 6 Buried Wounds of the Secret Sufferers: Memory, History, and the Japanese American Survivors in the Nuclear Pacific 135
12. Epilogue 152
13. Notes 157
14. Selected Bibliography 195
15. Index 215