Between 1889 and 1940 more than 40,000 Okinawan contract laborers emigrated to plantations in Hawaii, Brazil, the Philip
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Table of contents :
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
I: Tethered by a Silken Thread
Childhood
School Years
Victory Celebration
Growing Up
Marriage
II: Go, My Lucky Child
Contract Labor
Lima
Yamagawa Kitaro
III: On The Ship Of Good Fortune
Imperial Valley
Los Angeles
The World War II Years
Los Angeles Again
IV: And Return
Tethered By A Silken Thread
Afterword
Notes
Selected Bibliography