A portrait of the first Japanese immigrants, known as the Issei. Leaving behind a still-traditional, feudal society for the wide-open world of America, the Japa
Gathers oral histories from Japanese immigrants, most of them women, that discuss leaving Japan, life as farmers and orchard workers, and the World War II reloc
In the late 1800s the United States government encouraged Japanese emigration. Conflict started between the first generation Japanese Americans and their Americ