Hawaii End of the Rainbow: the End of the Rainbow

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Table of Contents; Preface; BOOK I: The Pioneers; Prologue; CHAPTER 1: Kauai is a Beautiful Island; CHAPTER 2: Transition to a Mercantile Trade; CHAPTER 3: Proxy Marriage; CHAPTER 4: Pleture Bride Arrives; CHAPTER 5: Picnic at Walklkl; CHAPTER 6: The People Make Merry; CHAPTER 7: The Eldest Son; BOOK II: The Early Days; Prologue; CHAPTER 8: Farm Life In Japan; CHAPTER 9: Contract Labor Years; CHAPTER 10: Escape from Waipunalel; CHAPTER 11: A Bride Comes to the Plantation; CHAPTER 12: The First Born Is Ambitious; BOOK III: The Second Generation; Prologue; CHAPTER 13: The Chlldren Grow Up.;This is the story of the Japanese who immigrated to Hawaii around the turn of the present century, worked as forced laborers on the sugar plantations, and afterwards remained in Hawaii to work as free men and to raise families. It is the story also of their children, born and raised in Hawaii, and who, during World War II, won fame and glory for themselves and their country on the bloody battlefields of Italy and southern Europe. But more than all of this, it is the story of the fate of the original immigrants during World War II. Rounded up by a panic-stricken American Government after the Ja.