Asia at the Door: A Study of the Japanese Question in Continental United States, Hawaii and Canada · International and Area Studies Library · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library

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Title: Asia at the Door: A Study of the Japanese Question in Continental United States, Hawaii and Canada
Author/Editor(s): Kiyoshi Karl Kawakami
Date: 1914
Publisher: Fleming H. Revell Co.
Call Number: 325.1 K17A
Catalog Link: https://i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_UIU/gpjosq/alma99121569012205899
Description: In Asia at the Door Kawakami addresses the Alien Land Act and argues for Japanese being able to become Americans. In doing so he does implicate Chinese as "less able" to be citizens. He especially addresses the anti-Asian sentiment in California and is basically arguing that the 'deep friendship" between Japan and America and Japanese unique cultural markers make them especially suitable for becoming American.