In Search of Our Frontier

Eiichiro Azuma is Alan Charles Kors Term Chair Associate Professor of History and Asian American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He is also the author of Between Two Empires: Race, History, and Transnationalism in Japanese America and a coeditor of The Oxford Handbook of Asian American History.

• List of IllustrationsPreface and AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Transpacific Japanese Migration, White American Racism,and Japan’s Adaptive Settler ColonialismPART ONE. IMAGINING A JAPANESE PACIFIC, 1884–19071. Immigrant Frontiersmen in America and the Origins of JapaneseSettler Colonialism2. Vanguard of an Expansive Japan: Knowledge Producers, FrontierTrotters, and Settlement Builders from across the PacificPART TWO. CHAMPIONING OVERSEAS JAPANESE DEVELOPMENT,1908–19283. Transpacific Migrants and the Blurring Boundaries of State andPrivate Settler Colonialism4. US Immigration Exclusion, Japanese America, and Transmigrantson Japan’s Brazilian FrontiersPART THREE. SPEARHEADING JAPAN'S IMPERIAL SETTLER COLONIALISM, 1924–19455. Japanese California and Its Colonial Diaspora: Translocal ManchuriaConnections6. Japanese Hawai‘i and Its Tropical Nexus: Translocal Remigration toColonial Taiwan and the Nan’yōPART FOUR. HISTORY AND FUTURITY IN JAPAN'S IMPERIAL SETTLER COLONIALISM, 1932–19457. Japanese Pioneers in America and the Making of ExpansionistOrthodoxy in Imperial Japan8. The Call of Blood: Japanese American Citizens and the Educationof the Empire’s Future “Frontier Fighters”Epilogue: The Afterlife of Japanese Settler ColonialismGlossary of Japanese Names: Remigrants from the ContinentalUnited States and Hawai‘iNotesIndex

"One of the most ambitious and expansive studies yet undertaken in the field of Japanese migration history. . . . Azuma deftly unravels the complex and tangled history of Japanese overseas migration."