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Family Records and Social History in Tokugawa Japan

A report on family records and social history in Tokugawa era Japan, from the World Conference on Records and Geneological Seminar, in Salt Lake City, Utah, August 5-8, 1969. Details different types of family records including official geneologies,…

Skid Road: An Informal Portrait of Seattle

Chapter on the Anti-Chinese riots in Seattle 1885 - 86.

Shizuko's Daughter

After her mother's suicide when she is twelve years old, Yuki spends years living with her distant father and his resentful new wife, cut off from her mother's family, and relying on her own inner strength to cope with the tragedy.

Polite Lies: on being a woman caught between cultures

The author describes being caught between the Japanese culture of her childhood and the American ways of her adulthood in the Midwest.