Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: Nikkei in the Pacific Northwest / Louis Fiset and Gail M. Nomura -- 2. Writing Racial Barriers into Law: Upholding B.C.'s Denial of the Vote to Its Japanese Canadian Citizens, "Homma v. Cunningham," 1902 / Andrea Geiger-Adams -- 3. Becoming "Local" Japanese: Iseei Adaptive Strategies on the Yakama Indian Reservation, 1906-1923 / Gail M. Nomura -- 4. Yasutaro Yamaga: Fraser Valley Berry Farmer, Community Leader, and Strategist / Michiko Midge Ayukawa -- 5. Americanization vs. Japanese Cultural Maintenance: Analyzing Seattle's "Nihongo Tokuhon", 1920 / Noriko Asato -- 6. "The Nail That Sticks Up Gets Hit" : The Architecture of Japanese American Identity in the Urban Environment, 1885-1942 / Gail Lee Dubrow -- 7. Four Hirabayashi Cousins: A Question of Identity / James A. Hirabayashi -- 8. The Minidoka Draft Resisters in a Federal Kangaroo Court / Eric L. Muller -- 9. Words Do Matter: A Notes on Inappropriate Terminology and the Incarceration of the Japanese Americans / Roger Daniels -- 10. In the Matter of Iwao Matsushita: A Government Decision to Intern a Seattle Japanese Enemy Alien in World War II / Louis Fiset -- 11. The "Free Zone" Nikkei: Japanese Americans in idaho and Eastern Oregon in World War II / Robert C. Sims -- 12. Lessons in Citizenship, 1945-1949: The Delayed Return of the Japanese to Canada's Pacific Coast / Patricia E. Roy -- 13. Peculiar Odyssey: Newsman Jimmie Omura's Removal from and Regeneration within Nikkei Society, History, and Memory / Arthur A. Hansen -- 14. Reclaiming and Reinventing "Powell Street" : Reconstruction of the Japanese Canadian Community in Post-World War II Vancouver / Masumi Izumi -- Contributors -- Index.