Abstract This article explores the education of Japanese American (Nisei) women in Hawai i in the interwar period of the s- s. Through case studies of Hawaii Women s Middle School, Tachikawa Women s School, and the Nippu Jiji Cooking Workshops, the author looks into the common curricula and pedagogical principles that Japanese immigrant educators and parents formulated relative to the question of Nikkei female education. Portions of this article also explain the responses of young Nisei women to the Issei s extolment of orthodox domesticity, middle-class values, and gendered cultural dualism. As Nisei education was deeply entrenched in the larger problem of community survival and reproduction in a so-called second-generation era, it is possible to learn much about Japanese American history of interwar Hawai i from the examination of how the three institutions aspired to mold Nisei women. Keywords : interwar, Hawai i, Japanese American (Nisei), women s education, Japanese language school
Yuji Ichioka Eileen H. Tamura
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Clarence Y. Shimamura Hawaiian Japanese Civic Association
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