Jan Ken Po: The World of Hawaii's Japanese Americans

by Dennis M. Ogawa

1978

Status

Available

Call number

301.45

Tags

DU624.7.J3 O36 1978

Genres

Publication

the university press of hawaii

DDC/MDS

301.45

Description

"Jan Ken Po, Ai Kono Sho" "Junk An'a Po, I Canna Show" These words to a simple child's game brought from Japan and made local, the property of all of Hawaii's people, symbolize the cultural transformation experienced by Hawaii's Japanese. It is the story of this experience that Dennis Ogawa tells so well here.

Subjects

Hawaii Social life and customs
Japanese Americans Hawaii Social life and customs

ISBN

0824803981 / 9780824803988

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