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Blood-Sacrifice in the Politics of a Nation-State. Japanese-Americans in Hawai'i During and After World War II

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Teresa Goudie
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This article examines the impact of acts of blood-sacrifice on the establishment and politics of a nation-state by focusing on the different experiences of the Japanese diaspora on the United States mainland and in the Hawaiian Islands during and after the Second World War.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 5 , Issue 11 , November 2007 , e16
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