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Discusses the history, culture, and religion of the Japanese, factors encouraging their emigration, and their acceptance as an ethnic group in North America.

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School Library Journal Review

Gr 7-12 Beginning with an overview of the Japanese experience in America, this up-to-date but poorly organized book covers the importance of Buddhism and Confucianism to Japanese culture, Japanese traditions, the history of Japanese immigration into North America, wartime evacuation, and contributions to American culture. It is an attractive book, filled with black-and-white photographs and with an eight-page ``album'' of color photographs which, unfortunately, are poorly captioned and bear little relation to the text. This book is more complete than Noel Leathers' The Japanese in America (Lerner, 1974) in most areas, is physically more attractive, and has a much more complete index. It provides a more thorough history of early Japan (pre-19th Century) and of international politics that effected emigration from Japan (strangely enough, there is no mention of Commodore Perry). Kitano also discusses Canadian responses to Japanese immigration and mentions the 1985 bill introduced to compensate wartime evacuees. However, Leathers' book has a more helpful table of contents and much better overall organization. It is written on a more elementary level, and its organization makes it more accessible to intermediate students. Where there is a need for additional (and more current) information on this topic, Kitano's book is an acceptable addition. Rosie Peasley, Sylvan Union School District, Modesto, Calif. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Booklist Review

Gr. 5-8. The first offering in the Peoples of North America series, this book is a smooth examination of the history of Japanese immigration to and acculturation in the U.S. and Canada. Beginning with the waves of immigrants in the 1860s, Kitano's study traces the lives of these people and their descendants through years of hardship and prejudice, culminating in the U.S. and Canadian detention camps of World War II. The last chapters describe the increasing acceptance of Japanese people into the mainstream of North American life, shown through the achievements of Japanese Americans in science, politics, and the arts. The transition of Japanese people to a Western life-style is described, as are those aspects of their culture that have become part of the mainstream. Although the author focuses mainly on the U.S., specifically Hawaii and California, he also includes some material relating to the Japanese in Canada. Illustrated with many black-and-white photographs, the book also has an inset section of 16 color photos. A useful volume for research papers on the subject. CP. 973'.04956 Japanese Americans [CIP] 86-28365