Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. INTRODUCTION Becoming Nisei: Spatial Stories and Imprints of Meiji Japan 1
6. CHAPTER ONE Establishing a New Community in Tacoma 28
7. CHAPTER TWO Struggle and Hard Work: From Physical Labor to Entrepreneurialism 61
8. CHAPTER THREE Japanese American Urban Lives: Spatial Stories of a Close Community 96
9. CHAPTER FOUR Expanding the Mapping of Japanese Urban Lives 127
10. CHAPTER FIVE The Yamasakis and the Tacoma Japanese Language School 143
11. CHAPTER SIX Ethical Lessons of Meiji Japan Woven into Nisei Stories 173
12. CONCLUSION Incarceration, Dispersal, and Erasure: Destruction of a Community 203
13. Appendix A Interviewees and Family Backgrounds 223
14. Appendix B Tacoma Japanese Language School Faculty 233
15. Notes 235
16. Bibliography 253
17. Index 267