The Japanese in Latin America (Asian American Experience)

I purchased this book because it contains a great deal of historical information that my mother, aunts and grandmother neglected to tell me. My grandfather was a Japanese immigrant to Mexico. My grandfather and his partner had a business in a small town in Sonora, Mexico. I learned in 2009 from a daughter of my grandfather's partner (who was also Japanese) and my grandmother's cousin that my grandfather and his partner were taken to an internment camp outside Mexico City during World War II. I never understood why. I began to do my own research and came across the book, The Japanese in Latin America. I learned of a location that may contain information about my grandfather, which is the National Archives in Mexico City. I have contacted the Japanese Embassy in Mexico City and they had no information. This book has so much information about why the Japanese left Japan and the reason for the internment of the Japanese in Latin America. I would not have been able to discover in my lifetime all the information that the book contains. I am greatful to the authors.

When I think of Asian immigrants I used to think they just settle in the Unitied States and Canada. It was hard at first to think of Asians being in Latin America. But, stranger things have occuried. To think that people would immigrate from a richer nation to a poorer one has always amazed me This is what makes the Americas a very interesting place. We have the diversity of all kinds of cultures to enrich our nations.