Table of contents : Contents Dedication and Acknowledgments Introduction Section I. Cooperation and Conflict in U.S.–Japanese Relations in Hawai‘i Section I Cooperation and Conflict in U.S.–Japanese Relations in Hawai‘i 1. From the Center to the Periphery: Hawai‘i and the Pacific Community 2. “Colossal Illusions”: The Institute of Pacific Relations in U.S.–Japanese Relations, 1919–1938 3. The Japanese Institute of Pacific Relations and the Kellogg-Briand Pact: The Activities and Limitations of Private Diplomacy 4. Hawai‘i, the IPR, and the Japanese Immigration Problem: A Focus on the First and Second IPR Conferences of 1925 and 1927 Section II. The Politics of Americanization from Japanese Immigrant Perspectives 5. Americanizing Hawai‘i’s Japanese: A Transnational Partnership and the Politics of Racial Harmony during the 1920s 6. Social, Cultural, and Spiritual Struggles of the Japanese in Hawai‘i: The Case of Okumura Takie and Imamura Yemyo and Americanization 7. In Search of a New Identity: Shiga Shigetaka’s Recommendations for Japanese in Hawai‘i 8. Buddhism at the Crossroads of the Pacific: Imamura Yemyō and Buddhist Social Ethics 9. In the Strong Wind of the Americanization Movement: The Japanese-Language School Litigation Controversy and Okumura’s Educational Campaign List of Contributors Index