Sea of Opportunity: The Japanese Pioneers of the Fishing Industry in Hawaii 9780824854850

Table of contents :
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Note on Names
Introduction
1. Passage to Hawai‘i: The Development of a Fishing Culture in Japan since Ancient Times
2. Japanese Fisherman Enter Hawaiian Waters: The Formative Years of Commercial Fishing in Hawai‘i and the Rise of the Japanese, from 1899 to the Early 1920s
3. The Heyday of the Japanese Fishing Industry in Hawai‘i
4. Surviving the Dark Days
5. The Reconstruction and Revitalization of Fisheries after World War II
6. Okinawa and Hawai‘i
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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