Hawaiʻi at the crossroads of the U.S. and Japan before the Pacific War / Jon Thares Davidann, editor.

Based on papers from a conference held in 2001 at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Jon Davidann, Paul F. Hooper, Eileen H. Tamura -- Cooperation and Conflict in U.S.-Japanese Relations in Hawai'i / Paul F. HooperFrom the Center to the Periphery: Hawai'i and the Pacific Community Tomoko Akami -- "Colossal Illusions": The Institute of Pacific Relations in U.S.-Japanese Relations, 1919-1938 / Jon Davidann -- The Japanese Institute of Pacific Relations and the Kellogg-Briand Pact: The Activities and Limitations of Private Diplomacy / Michiko Ito -- Hawai'i, the IPR, and the Japanese Immigration Problem: A Focus on the First and Second IPR Conferences of 1925 and 1927 / Nobuo Katagiri -- The Politics of Americanization from Japanese Immigrant Perspectives / Eileen H. Tamura -- Americanizing Hawai'i's Japanese: A Transnational Partnership and the Politics of Racial Harmony during the 1920s / Hiromi Monobe -- Social, Cultural, and Spiritual Struggles of the Japanese in Hawai'i: The Case of Okumura Takie and Imamura Yemyo and Americanization / Shimada Noriko -- In Search of a New Identity: Shiga Shigetaka's Recommendations for Japanese in Hawai'i / Masako Gavin -- Buddhism at the Crossroads of the Pacific: Imamura Yemyo and Buddhist Social Ethics / Moriya Tomoe -- In the Strong Wind of the Americanization Movement: The Japanese-Language School Litigation Controversy and Okumura's Educational Campaign / Mariko Takagi-Kitayama.