Parent-Child Relationships As Seen In All I Asking for is My Body
Hawaiʻi was the first U.S. possession to become a major destination for immigrants from Japan. A large number of Japanese began arriving...
Japanese Filial Piety for Both Mother and Sons
Filial piety is associated with the first born of a family, but who are the people who had to support the family and attempt to pay off...
Critical Review: All I Asking For Is My Body
It isn’t a terribly difficult idea to comprehend that back in the day manual labour jobs such as plantation work forged a colourful and...
Being Japanese-American: After December 7, 1941
The lives of thousands of Japanese-Americans were forever changed on December 7, 1941, when the Japanese military released multiple...
The Dark Underbelly of Plantation Literature
The life of a plantation worker in Hawaiʻi was the life of a slave. Sugar plantations thrived in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Before...
The Real Plantation Life
Plantation life as described in the book All I Asking for is my Body by Milton Murayama is one of hardships and sacrifice. Within the...
