University Of Hawaii Press Teaching mikadoism: the attack on japanese language schools in hawaii, california, and washington, 1919-1927, paperback/noriko asato

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Teaching Mikadoism is a dynamic and nuanced look at the Japanese language school controversy that originated in the Territory of Hawai'i in 1919.

At the time, ninety-eight percent of Hawai'i's Japanese American children attended Japanese language schools.

Hawai'i sugar plantation managers endorsed Japanese language schools but, after witnessing the assertive role of Japanese in the 1920 labor strike, they joined public school educators and the Office of Naval Intelligence in labeling them ant.