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Mizuno, Takeya. "The Civil Libertarian press, Japanese American press, and Japanese American mass evacuation /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9998498.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2000.
Appendices are translation of Japanese articles. Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 366-381). Also available on the Internet.
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Cooper, Molly Malloy. "Japanese American wages, 1940-1990." Columbus, OH : Ohio State University, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1064341404.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2003.
Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains xi, 132 p. Includes abstract and vita. Advisor: Richard H. Steckel, Dept. of Economics. Includes bibliographical references (p. 126-132).
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Kobayashi, Junko. ""Bitter sweet home" : celebration of biculturalism in Japanese language Japanese American literature, 1936-1952 /." Diss., University of Iowa, 2005. http://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/97.

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Kawaharada, Dennis. "The rhetoric of identity in Japanese American writings, 1948-1988 /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9347.

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Fox, Judith Rosuck. "Educating Japanese students in American schools /." Access Digital Full Text version, 1994. http://pocketknowledge.tc.columbia.edu/home.php/bybib/11714190.

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Thesis (Ed.D.)--Teachers College, Columbia University, 1994.
Typescript; issued also on microfilm. Sponsor: Terry Orr. Dissertation Committee: Frank L. Smith. Includes tables. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 167-169).
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Wilbur, Theodore. "American Friends Service Committee efforts to aid Japanese American citizens during World War II." [Boise, Idaho] : Boise State University, 2009. http://scholarworks.boisestate.edu/td/47/.

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Kiyosue, Teppei. "Teaching Japanese in an American high school how Japanese teachers make sense of their American students' communication styles /." Huntington, WV : [Marshall University Libraries], 2004. http://www.marshall.edu/etd/descript.asp?ref=476.

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Hegwood, Robert Alan. "Erasing the Space Between Japanese and American: Progressivism, Nationalism, and Japanese American Resettlement in Portland, Oregon, 1945-1948." PDXScholar, 2011. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/151.

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This study examines the return of Japanese Americans to Portland, Oregon, following their mass incarceration by the United States Federal government between 1942 and 1945. This essay examines the motivations of both returning Japanese Americans and various groups within the white community with equal focus in the hopes of writing a history that provides agency to both groups. The return of Japanese Americans to Portland was an event with broader implications than a mere chapter in the history of Japanese Americans. The rise of the Japanese Exclusion League and other groups interested in preventing the return of Japanese Americans to Oregon had their roots partly in the Oregon progressive coalition of the 1930s known as the Oregon Commonwealth Federation (OCF). Unified behind the cause of public ownership of electricity distribution, racially exclusive progressives such as Oregon Governor Walter M. Pierce and civil rights progressives such as American Civil Liberties Union lawyer Gus J. Solomon sought to protect Oregon's producer class of farmers and workers from exploitation by Portland business interests. After the dissolution of the OCF in 1940 and the attack on Pearl Harbor, the two progressive factions took opposite sides on the issues of the rights of Japanese Americans. In 1945, anti-Japanese organizers across the state, including Pierce, American Legion officials, and Portland politicians called for the permanent exclusion of Japanese Americans. The racist rhetoric of these organizers drew the ire of the Portland Council of Churches, civic leaders, and War Relocation Authority officials, who formed the Portland Citizens Committee to Aid Relocation, the main white group to help returners find housing and employment. Their arguments for tolerance depended heavily on the story of Japanese American military service during World War II. Responding to the shape of debates within the white community, returning Japanese Americans community leaders, especially Toshi Kuge and George Azumano of the Portland Japanese American Citizen's League (JACL), used the rhetoric of military service to demonstrate their Americanness after World War II. The rhetoric of valorous military service provided the ideological center of both remerging Japanese American leadership organizations and connections between the Nikkei community and white civic leaders. After the reestablishment of Japanese American community organizations in Portland, Issei leaders lead a successful fundraising campaign to support a legal challenge to overturn the Oregon Alien Land Law and fund the Portland JACL. Subsequently, between 1946 and 1948, the Portland JACL served as liaisons between the Japanese American community and the white Portlanders interested in overturning laws that challenged Issei social and economic rights. Despite their efforts, Japanese Americans in the early postwar period, along with other Portland minority groups,faced significant discrimination in housing options, employment, and even blood supply. Their experience demonstrates both the power and limitations of arguments for racial tolerance in the early postwar period.
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Syms, Colleen. "Japanese-American Internment: How Nationalism Invalidated Citizenship." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2015. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/707.

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Kost, Cecily R. "Conceptualization of depression among Japanese American elders." Virtual Press, 1997. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1045622.

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This study examined how Japanese American elders conceptualize depression. Japanese American elders age 65 years and older (N = 120) were recruited from a senior center in Los Angeles, CA. Participants read a brief vignette that described an individual who met the criteria for major depression and then filled out a series of questionnaires. Counter to prior theories, these Japanese American elders emphasized that the interpersonal criteria contributed to the individual's problem to a lesser degree than the somatic, emotional, and cognitive criteria. These elders expressed Explanatory Models of depression that were similar to Western Conceptualizations of depression. The results also indicated that having an important role within one's family and higher activity levels tended to be related to lower Geriatric Depression Scale scores. Finally, acculturation, generational status, sex, educational level, and income were not related to problem conceptualization. Clinical implications and directions for future research were discussed.
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LoCastro, Virginia. "Intercultural pragmatics : a Japanese-American case study." Thesis, Lancaster University, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.305780.

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Tokuda, Soichiro. "Where is "home" for Japanese-Americans?" Thesis, State University of New York at Binghamton, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3590779.

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This study explores the issue of Japanese internment camp in the United States and Canada during World War Two. It argues that Japanese immigrants, who were totally innocent, became historical victims and experienced camp. During World War Two, the Japanese army attacked Pearl Harbor, a territory of the United States. This incident made mainstream American and Canadian society suspicious of Japanese immigrants, who had the same ethnicity and blood as the army, the "enemies." This study is an attempt to find the voice and feelings of those who had to experience trauma in camp. As subaltern figures, all they had to do was endure and accept their fate. As immigrants, who seemed not to have English fluency, they had to accept the requirements of America or Canada in order to be allowed to live. At the same time, this study seeks to analyze how Japanese-Americans and -Canadians forged their identity after overcoming the trauma of camp and the agony of assimilation. In so doing, this dissertation considers the work of four novelists who have written about these difficult issues. Chapter 1 explains how other Asians – Koreans and Chinese – were affected by the Japanese army and how mainstream society looked at Japanese immigrants. Chapters 2 and 3 explore Joy Kogawa's Obasan and Itsuka. Naomi, the protagonist, struggles to find a sense of "home-ness." Chapter 4 examines Monica Sone's Nisei Daughter. Kazuko, the protagonist, has to experience negative aspects of the United States. Chapter 5 explores Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston's Farewell to Manzanar. Jeanne, the protagonist, has to go through painful experiences and racism up to the last section of the novel. Chapter 6 analyzes John Okada's No-No Boy. Ichiro, the protagonist, suffers self-alienation. He cannot fix his identity between his duality until he can find his "home." Chapter 7 examines the authors' intentions and asks in which direction Japanese-Americans and -Canadians can move forward in the future.

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Pak, Yoon K. ""Wherever I go I will be a loyal American" : democracy and dissonance in the lives of Seattle's Nisei /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/7597.

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Min, Myungkee. "Japanese/American architecture : a century of cultural exchange /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/6237.

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Kinuhata, Hitomi. "Hugh Borton : his role in American-Japanese relations /." [Johnson City, Tenn. : East Tennessee State University], 2004. http://etd-submit.etsu.edu/etd/theses/available/etd-0629104-174631/unrestricted/KinuhataH072004f.pdf.

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Thesis (M.A.)--East Tennessee State University, 2004.
Title from electronic submission form. ETSU ETD database URN: etd-0629104-174631. Includes bibliographical references. Also available via Internet at the UMI web site.
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Imai, Shiho. "Creating the Nisei market : Japanese American consumer culture in Honolulu, 1920-1941 /." View online version; access limited to Brown University users, 2005. http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/3174622.

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Just, Courtney M. "New American Zen: Examining American Women's Adaptation of Traditional Japanese Soto Zen Practice." FIU Digital Commons, 2011. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/527.

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The purpose of this thesis was to explore the history and rituals of Japanese Soto Zen nuns and American Soto Zen ordained women in order to examine the motivations behind each group’s practices and distinguish the differences in the intent and practice of American Soto women’s rituals, specifically their reactions to the influence of feminism, and the effects of American syncretization in order to identify if a schism or a continuation is occurring within the Soto Zen tradition. Along with a survey of published research, interviews were conducted with two scholars and prominent ordained Soto practitioners–eight female and three male. Findings suggest that while maintaining strict adherence to specific orthodox rituals, American Soto women also reinterpret Soto traditions and adapt new practices to address the needs of American women’s practice. Findings further indicate the effects of American syncretization in nurturing a legitimate albeit uniquely American expression of Soto Zen.
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Mayeda, Karen A. "Generational and Transgenerational Issues of the Japanese American Internment : A Phenomenological Study." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1995. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278845/.

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This study utilized a qualitative/phenomenological research methodology to examine the generational and transgenerational issues of five identified Japanese American families. To be included in this study, families were identified to contain at least one member who was interned during World War II or who had parents, grandparents, or great-grandparents who were interned. Semistructured interviews, including Adlerian lifestyle assessments, were conducted with the 28 research informants who represented the second, third, and fourth generations of their families.
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Furuya, Sachiko. "The Role of Eldercare Professionals Who Speak Japanese to Japanese American Patients in Hawai'i Eldercare." Thesis, Saybrook University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10750857.

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Japanese Americans comprise approximately 20% of the State of Hawaii’s population and Japanese is the most common language used by first-generation Japanese Americans. As a result, delivering effective care to Hawaiian residents means that providers must deliver services in a culturally sensitive manner. Accomplishing this aim becomes increasingly difficult within elderly populations, when patients are dealing with physical and cognitive limitations as well as cultural and language barriers. This study examined the question: How can Hawaii eldercare professionals improve patient eldercare services to Japanese immigrants, taking into consideration Japanese language and cultural norms?

This study utilized a qualitative grounded theory design. One elder daycare facility and one hospice were selected as the setting for the study. From these settings, four participants were recruited from the hospice and three were recruited from the daycare. Participants’ job titles included nurse, massage therapist, grief counselor, daycare director, and activity aide. Participants were asked to provide their demographic information, report on the services they deliver and patient communication practices they utilize, and share their views about quality of care and desired patient outcomes. The interview data were analyzed using open coding and axial coding, culminating in the creation of an integrated theory.

Examination of the study data indicated that delivering culturally sensitive eldercare requires efforts to (a) understand patients’ history, beliefs, worries, goals, and diagnosis; (b) educate patients to ease concerns and elicit self-supportive behaviors; and (c) respect and adapt to patients’ characteristics and needs. Recommendations for eldercare professionals are to improve education and training of all eldercare staff, promote Japanese facilities and Japanese eldercare programming, and expand caregiver roles. Additionally, more research is needed to confirm and extend the present study’s findings—specifically using a much larger sample size, including patient and family perspectives, and examining differences among Japanese immigrant subgroups.

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Dusselier, Jane Elizabeth. "Artful identifications crafting survival in Japanese American concentration camps /." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/2449.

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Thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2005.
Thesis research directed by: American Studies. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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Kitamura, Keiko. "Demographic Genetics of North American and Japanese Beech Populations." 京都大学 (Kyoto University), 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/182014.

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Yasumoto, Saori. "Culture, Cognition, and Parenthood in Japanese and American Homes." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2010. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/sociology_diss/52.

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Previous family researchers have found that parents who share different demographic backgrounds construct unique parenting styles and beliefs. Although such studies contribute to understanding how parenthood is socially constructed, the information about how parents internalize cultural information and everyday experiences to raise children is missing in the extant literature. To fully comprehend the social construction of parenthood, the linkage between the mind and the behavior of parents within specific social structures needed to be studied. I thus conducted conjoint interviews with 24 Japanese couples and 24 American couples who were raising four-to-six year old daughters and sons to examine how culture and cognition produce parental philosophies and family relationships. By using cognitive sociology as a theoretical framework and grounded theory methods as a mode of analysis, I found that the parents’ construction of parenting beliefs and practices basically depended on how they thought about four analytically distinct relationships: (1) their relationship to their parents; (2) their relationship to their children; (3) their relationship to their marital partner; and (4) their relationship to other people in society. Although fathers and mothers in Japan and the United States talked in general about these four aspects, in the process of doing so they offered unique views on each aspect. Japanese parents tended to view their parents as role models, believe that children and parents teach and learn from each other, consider gender ideology to be the foundation of parental partnership, and rank understanding others' feelings as the most important skill for children. Thus, their parenting philosophies were manufactured through reciprocal relationships with other people. In contrast, American parents tended to want to become better parents than their own parents, prefer to influence and control their children’s lives, consider equality to be the foundation of their parental partnership, and encourage their children to become independent. Therefore, their parenting philosophies were manufactured through self motivation. Through the cross-national comparisons of parents’ cognitive processes, I also discuss: the levels of parental expectations and pressures; the issues around the gender relations within a family; and the roles of international parenting books in a globalizing world.
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Kramer, Michael Bela. "A comparison of the American and Japanese construction industries." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/20810.

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Shelton, Abigail Leigh. "Japanese native perceptions of the facial expressions of American learners of L2 Japanese in specified contexts." The Ohio State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1543450226217818.

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Oharazeki, Kazuhiro. "Japanese prostitutes in the Pacific Northwest, 1887-1920." Diss., Online access via UMI:, 2008.

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Moskow, Michal Anne. "Japanese families living temporarily in four areas of North America: Traditionalism and adaptation." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 1991. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1055276842.

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Kase, Toyoshi. "Nisei samurai culture and agency in three Japanese American lives /." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/2411.

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Thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2005.
Thesis research directed by: American Studies. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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De, Virgilio John F. "The reconciliation movement between Japanese and American Pacific war veterans." Thesis, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/7098.

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In the spring of 1986, I began the study of a new skill in computer-aided design and drafting (CADD). My intent was to fulfill one of my life long interests concerning the Pearl Harbor attack by producing scaled drawings depicting the damage inflicted on each of the five sunken American battleships at Pearl Harbor by the Japanese Imperial Navy. My aim was the creation of highly detailed computer graphics that would precisely illustrate the enormous amount of damage inflicted on the five ships.
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Iida, Eri. "Hedges in Japanese English and American English medical research articles." Thesis, McGill University, 2007. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=99723.

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The present study analysed the use of hedges in English medical research articles written by Japanese and American researchers. The study also examined the relationship between Japanese medical professionals' employment of hedges and their writing process. Sixteen English medical articles: eight written by Japanese and eight by Americans were examined. Four of the Japanese authors discussed their writing process through questionnaires and telephone interviews.
The overall ratio of hedges in articles written by the two groups differed only slightly; however, analyses revealed a number of specific differences in the use of hedges between the groups. For example, Japanese researchers used epistemic adverbs and adjectives less frequently than the American researchers. The results were discussed in relation to the problems of nonnative speakers' grammatical competence, cultural differences in rhetorical features, and the amount of experience in the use of medical English.
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Inouye, Karen M. "Changing history : competing notions of Japanese American experience, 1942--2006." View abstract/electronic edition; access limited to Brown University users, 2008. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3318331.

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Erzen-Toyoshima, Mary. "An exploration of cultural differences in Japanese/American intercultural marriages." PDXScholar, 1986. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/3595.

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Kono, Nariyo. "American Students' Expectations of Teachers in the Japanese Language Classroom." PDXScholar, 1995. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/5261.

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The Japanese as a foreign language classroom in the United States is full of information about the target culture and cross-cultural interaction between American students and Japanese instructors. This cross-cultural interaction promotes culture learning but sometimes produces potential conflicts due to American students and Japanese instructors having different expectations of each other. The purpose of this study was to investigate student expectations of their Japanese teachers and to explore similarities and differences among Japanese and American expectations. The research questions addressed were 1) What do American students expect of their Japanese teachers in the Japanese language classroom? Do their expectations have any distinctive features?, and 2) What do Japanese teachers expect of themselves in the Japanese language classroom? Do their expectations have any distinctive features? The data was gathered in the two Japanese programs at universities in the Northwest. This exploratory study used both the quantitative and descriptive research methods. There were three primary data analysis procedures: multidimensional scaling analysis, hierarchical cluster analysis, and rank-order analysis. These multidimensional and hierarchical clustering analyses explored the underlying structure of the concept of what makes a good Japanese language teacher. The rank-order analysis revealed which beliefs were most important for different groups' judgments of who is a good teacher. In addition, the results of these analyses were discussed with the subjects through interviews. The results suggested a major similarity and also some culture differences. Both Americans and Japanese seemed to share a very basic framework about what makes a good teacher, which contained three domains: Classroom management, Interaction and Personality. However, some of the results seemed to reflect a difference between the role-specific aspects of Japanese society and the individualistic elements of American society. In addition, the rank-order analysis seemed to reveal a difference between the two schools.
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Nomura, Shiori. "Japanese immigrant women and the idea of "home" : voices in the Nichibei (Japanese American Daily), 1914-1924." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.630476.

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The thesis investigates the articulation of the voices of Japanese women in the U.S. in the Japanese immigrant media between 1914 and 1924 with particular regard to the idea of "home". The phrase the 'voices of women' in this thesis means discourses by women which denote varied and dynamic social practices and the meanings of utterances and cognitions (including the production and interpretation of various texts) in a socio-political economic and cultural context. This research critically evaluates the complicated roles and characteristics of the 'voices of women' as well as taking into account the authoritarian manner in which the media provided opportunities for the 'voices of women'. The research analyzes a range of published material written and spoken by Japanese women living in the U.S. Quantitative and qualitative content/textual analyses are deployed to examine the largest Japanese immigrant newspaper, The Nichibei (Japanese American Daily). The 'voices of women' challenge the dominant male discourses and Japanese 'traditional' gender ideology. However, these voices were used to construct a unified image of Japanese women in the U.S. as a series of groups, in the sense of a racial, national and ethnic group. a working-class group and groups of wives or mothers. They internalized modern hegemonic middle-class values under the influence of the developing concepts of race and nation. They were represented in connection with ideals of "good homes" and femininity. especially in the fields of romantic love; the position and roles of women in a family and society; and motherhood. The thesis concludes that women were not simply a 'voiceless' unity, nor a unity with 'voices'. Among the various women and men involved, there were complicated power relations defining the image of "'Japanese women in the U.S."
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Newman, Esther S. "Sojourners, Spies and Citizens: The Interned Latin American Japanese Civilians during World War II." Connect to resource online, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1210777704.

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Louk, Tommy. "American Shogun: Reasons Why the Japanese were Fascinated with General MacArthur." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2012. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/honors_theses/15.

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This paper will provide an insight into why the Japanese liked General MacArthur during the American occupation of Japan after World War II. By using letters that the Japanese sent to MacArthur I will show that the Japanese saw him as a liberator. The Japanese people were tired of the brutal rule by the military and were pleased with free speech and the right to assembly that MacArthur bestowed upon them. The Japanese people did not trust their leaders but trusted MacArthur to make fix their country. The Japanese people thought that MacArthur was liberating them from war, poverty, and despair.
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McLaughlin, Linda A. "Factors that contribute to stress among Japanese-American and Caucasian-American family caregivers of frail elders." Thesis, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/3031.

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Care for frail elderly adults in the U.S. has increasingly become the financial, physical and emotional responsibility of family members. Over twenty years of caregiving research has documented many factors that contribute to stress among caregivers. Due to the inherent stresses associated with informal caregiving, and an increase in multi-ethnic elders in the U.S., this study was designed to investigate factors that contribute to caregiving stress among Japanese-American and Caucasian-American caregivers of frail elders. The purpose of this study was to examine a model of factors associated with stress, and to compare the utility of this model in the prediction of stress among Japanese-American and Caucasian-American caregivers of frail elders in Hawaiʻi. Specifically, this study examined the importance of (1) employment status, (2) time spent caregiving, (3) use of formal services, (4) functional ability, (5) social support, (6) health problems, and (7) attitude toward family care in explaining stress among caregivers. Stress was measured by two indicators, depression and life satisfaction. A correlational design was used to test the hypothesized relationships. Participants in this study were 98 Japanese-American and 86 Caucasian-American adult family caregivers who were caring for a frail elder at home. Participants were recruited from two caregiver support groups, two adult day care centers, and one home health care agency on O'ahu. Multivariate analysis of variance revealed that there were significant differences between the Japanese-American and Caucasian-American samples with regard to the model of factors hypothesized to predict stress among caregivers. Simultaneous multiple regression analyses were used to test the hypothesized relationships between predictor and criterion variables. Decreased social support and more health problems of the caregiver were significant in the prediction of depression among Japanese caregivers; increased employment, decreased service use, and more health problems were significant in the prediction of depression among Caucasian caregivers. The variable "attitude toward family care" significantly predicted depression in both groups. Decreased time spent caregiving, increased social support, and stronger attitude toward family care were significant in the prediction of life satisfaction among Japanese caregivers. Only the variable "attitude toward family care" was significant in the prediction of life satisfaction among Caucasian caregivers. The results of this study are limited with regard to generalizability. The use of a convenience sample, the use of a correlational design (limiting causal inferences), and modifications made to the ATPLTC scale that measured "attitude toward family care," a scale not previously tested for psychometric properties or for use among multiethnic populations, limit the generalizability of these findings beyond the sample participants. In light of these limitations, future research could examine the continued use of the modified ATPLTC scale among multiethnic populations due to the promising results found in this study. "Attitude toward family care of elders" was the only variable that was significant with both samples, and with both indicators of stress. The importance of attitudes in determining behaviors associated with caregiving for frail elders among ethnically diverse caregivers may greatly assist social workers, gerontologists, and other health care professionals in providing culturally competent services and interventions.
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2002.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 152-171).
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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Yip, Chi-wai Rudolph. "A study of American and Japanese electronics manufacturing investments in Hong Kong /." [Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong], 1988. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B12369792.

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McAndrew, Jennifer Malia. "All American beauty the experiences of African American, European American, and Japanese American women with beauty culture in the mid-twentieth century United States /." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/8117.

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Thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2008.
Thesis research directed by: Dept. of History. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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Geiger, Andrea A. E. "Cross-Pacific dimensions of race, caste and class : Meiji-era Japanese immmigrants in the North American West, 1885-1928 /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/10496.

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Yok, Larry Tom. "The philanthropic priorities of Chinese and Japanese Americans as they relate to Asian American culturally specific museums." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/13160.

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Asian American culturally specific museums began forming in the United States in 1963. There are now 11 in existence. Four of these museums (two Chinese American, one Japanese American and one Pan Asian American) dramatically expanded their programs and constructed large new facilities. These culturally specific museums are private nonprofit organizations that are reliant on private donors for most of their financial support. Asian Americans comprise the majority of these Asian American museums’ donor bases. Understanding why donors support these museums may be useful to the museums’ abilities to raise funds.In this thesis I explore the reasons Chinese and Japanese Americans support these culturally specific museums. I used data from my qualitative study involving in-depth interviews of 16 Chinese and Japanese American current and former donors to a Pan Asian culturally specific museum in Seattle, Washington along with interviews of chief executives and other key informants of five other culturally specific museums in addition to primary documents provided by the museums and related secondary information available through the Internet. I also conducted a literature review in the fields of Development Studies, racial and ethnic identity, museology, and philanthropy. While identifying the reasons donors support these culturally specific museums, I also identify the philanthropic priorities and criteria of Chinese and Japanese Americans residing in Seattle and compare them with similar studies of Asian American philanthropy conducted in other cities in the 1990’s. I also examine the roles played by these culturally specific museums in the promotion of social capital, cultural capital and heritage capital in their communities. Chinese and Japanese Americans support these museums to preserve and educate their communities about the contributions their forebears made to the development of the United States. Asian American history has been marginalized in conventional narratives and one mission of the Asian American culturally specific museums is to bring their stories into the American history mainstream. Creating and operating these museums requires substantial networking within the Chinese and Japanese American communities and with other ethnic communities to bring in visitors and obtain financial and other support. The museums promote social capital development through collaboration in the museums’ operations. They increase the communities’ cultural capital by assembling the dispersed cultural and heritage capital of the Chinese and Japanese American communities into curated collections. These Asian American culturally specific museums face challenges stemming from attrition in their donor bases due to age. The museums need to develop activities that attract new supporters who may be mixed race or mixed ethnicity or who are interested in social activism that impacts society. The museums also must create programs that are relevant to younger generations. The findings of this study lay the groundwork for further inquiry into the ways culturally specific museums promote bonding and bridging capital in low and middle class Asian American communities and the degree to which they affect development in their neighbourhoods. Further research into the museums’ educational programs efficacy as they relate to correcting misperceptions about Asian Americans among non-Asian Americans may be desirable.
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Kitano, Hiroko. "Cross-cultural differences in written discourse patterns : a study of acceptability of Japanese expository compositions in American universities." PDXScholar, 1990. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4084.

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Since Kaplan started the study of contrastive rhetoric, researchers have investigated Japanese and English compositions and have found some differences between them. However, few studies have investigated how these differences are perceived by native English readers when the different rhetorical patterns are transferred to English writing. Drawing from Hinds' study, this research focuses on the following: how the Japanese style of writing is evaluated by Japanese and American readers, especially in academic situations, how Japanese rhetorical patterns are perceived by American readers, and how a change of organization affects the evaluation by American readers.
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Gessner, Ingrid. "From sites of memory to cybersights (re)framing Japanese American experiences." Heidelberg Winter, 2005. http://deposit.d-nb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=3016743&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm.

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Yip, Chi-wai Rudolph, and 葉志偉. "A study of American and Japanese electronics manufacturing investmentsin Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1988. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31264207.

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Frankenberger, Dale Thomas. "The growth of the Japanese economy: challenges to American national security." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/28251.

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As the Japanese economy has grown more powerful over the last two decades, there has been an increasing number of influential Americans who have voiced the fear that sharp economic competition from Japan is beginning to threaten the health of the US economy. There is a wide-spread perception that Japan is a "neo-mercantilist" nation which engages in predatory and unfair trade practices. Japan-bashers maintain that the Japanese believe that there is little distinction between economic security and national security and that their mercantilist approach to doing business threatens American national security by weakening critical elements of the US economy. By examining the extent and nature of the Japanese economic presence in the world marketplace, this thesis will show that this economic challenge poses no real danger to American economic interests except in one critical area--the development and control of high technology.
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Tahara, Nobuko. "The use of shell nouns in Japanese and American student writing." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2017. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/7201/.

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This thesis addresses the quality of ‘difference’ in L2 English argumentative essays written by Japanese students by focusing on the use of metadiscursive nouns. It does this by comparing the similarities and differences in the use of 33 shell nouns (Schmid, 2000) as discourse construction devices in two corpora: the Japanese subcorpus of ICLE – Japanese writing in English as a foreign language – and the US subcorpus of LOCNESS – Americans writing in English as a first language. Based on Schmid’s (2000) theory, discourse roles of shell nouns are analysed according to three aspects: noun frequencies, syntactic patterns where shell nouns occur, and lexicalisation of nouns. This thesis demonstrates that one source of different impressions in non-native speaker writing stems from their use of shell nouns. The findings show that each group of students uses shell nouns differently, most notably for anaphoric referring functions. Employing different lexicalisation patterns, Japanese students use nouns for these functions more frequently than American students. Different lexicalisations are correlated with preferred discourse construction and argumentation patterns in each of the corpora. This thesis describes the findings and discusses causes of difference that suggest a transfer of L1 cultural values and essay conventions. Aspects of shell noun usage that the Japanese students tend not to handle well are identified and implications for pedagogical practice are discussed.
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Ogasawara, Etsuko. "Job satisfaction and work commitment among Japanese and American collegiate coaches /." The Ohio State University, 1997. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487946776023419.

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Wyn-Jones, Morgan. "An Analysis of the Japanese-American Alliance in the Trump Era." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för Asien-, Mellanöstern- och Turkietstudier, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-175684.

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Yamamoto, Traise. "Writing "that other, private self" : the construction of Japanese American female subjectivity /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9436.

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Manor, Mike. "The home front : civil rights, American values, and public trust when America is at war /." Maxwell AFB, Ala. : School of Advanced Air and Space Studies, 2008. https://www.afresearch.org/skins/rims/display.aspx?moduleid=be0e99f3-fc56-4ccb-8dfe-670c0822a153&mode=user&action=downloadpaper&objectid=cfa77bfd-34c7-403f-9f65-cbb4037fa454&rs=PublishedSearch.

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Kinoshita, Gaku. "Storied identities: Japanese American elderly from a sugar plantation community in Hawai'i." Thesis, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/707.

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This is a study of the collective identities of Japanese American elderly in a former sugar plantation community in the rural town of Puna, Hawai'i. Investigating their plantation stories in which they remember, evaluate, and represent their past lives on the plantation from the 1920s, to the 1980s, I explore a process of which they collectively delineate their identities in terms of ethnicity, class, generation, and gender. My analysis focuses on the contents as well as the contexts of plantation stories that include their social and cultural circumstances now and then, transitions in the socioeconomic environment in Hawai'i, and historical events that they have gone through. The purpose of this study is to produce an ethnography of remembering that captures ethnographic voice-cultural testimony in which the Japanese American elderly narrate their plantation experience as both an internally-oriented emotional manifestation and an externally-based common understanding of their community. I demonstrate how the Japanese American elderly employ their memories to reconstruct plantation experience and define their peoplehood as the collective identities of plantation-raised Japanese Americans.
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