Dealing with Japanese-Americans in Hawaii and on the coast, the author offers details such as Kukaro Abiko's settlement and especially good analysis on generational differences and financial despoilation in 1942. He fails to mention the effect of the Rape of Nanking, etc. on American public opinion, the Japanese driving the Chinese out of celery production in Southern California, etc. and misses the Japanese gardener, who set the benchmark in that trade for the 20th Century. Evidence is presented of the extensive FBI monitoring of this community in Hawaii before the war; no saboteurs were detected. Smith also concludes that the assimilability of the peoples of Hawaii was eased by the absence of a large population of poor whites. "Notes on Sources" by chapter at the end of the book and indexed.

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