Sea of opportunity
Subtitle: the Japanese pioneers of the fishing industry in Hawaiʻi
By: Manako Ogawa
Publisher: University of Hawaiʻi Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Honolulu
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780824854850; 9780824869595; 9780824839611
Subjects: Industries; State & Local; History; Fishers; Japanese; General; Fisheries; Fishing; HISTORY; Employment; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS; West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
Description: This text presents a part historical and a part ethnographic study of Japanese fisheries in Hawaii from the late nineteenth century to contemporary times. Unlike most of the previous works on Japanese immigrants to Hawaii, which focus on sugarcane plantations, this breakthrough work is the first comprehensive history of Japanese as fishermen.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.
Table of contents: title: Passage to Hawaiʻi: the development of a fishing culture in Japan since ancient times; title: Japanese fisherman enter Hawaiian waters: the formative years of commercial fishing in Hawaiʻi and the rise of the Japanese, from 1899 to the early 1920s; title: The heyday of the Japanese fishing industry in Hawaiʻi; title: Surviving the dark days; title: The reconstruction and revitalization of fisheries after World War II; title: Okinawa and Hawaiʻi.