Tokyo: Nihon Shokumin Tsushinsha [Japan Colonization News Agency], 1928. [2],2,2,102,[2]pp., plus photographic frontispiece. Original printed wrappers. Minor wear, creasing, and some soiling to wrappers. Scattered, mostly minor foxing to text. A rare promotional encouraging Japanese immigration to Brazil, aimed at agricultural entrepreneurs. The work includes chapters on the present state..... More

Tokyo: Dainihon Bunmei Kyokai, 1914. [2],2,4,2,482,[2]pp., including numerous monotone photographs in the text, plus a folding map. Original blue cloth stamped in gilt. Minor wear and slight scuffing to extremities, spine a bit darkened. Scattered minor foxing, a few ink library stamps to text, spine over-opened after first text leaf..... More

Tokyo: Nihon gaiko kyokai [Japanese Association for Foreign Relations], 1938. [105]pp. Original printed wrappers. Stitching perished, spine sympathetically reinforced. Light wear at edges, even toning. Small contemporary ink stamp to front wrapper. A rare, mimeographed report on the history of Mexico and its economy, with a section about Japanese owned..... More

[Tokyo]: Taku tsutomu sho taku tsutomu-kyoku [Bureau of Colonial Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs], Showa 14 [1939]. 16pp. Original printed wrappers. Even toning, minor dust soiling. A short, but dense and illustrated guide to a Japanese agricultural colony founded in Paraguay during the 1930s. The settlement, called "La Colmena," was..... More

[Various locations in the United States, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and others: 1950-1995]. 290 original vernacular photographs, some with manuscript captions, measuring between 2.5 x 1.75 inches and 8 x 10 inches, plus two partially-printed certificates completed in manuscript. Overall general wear. A unique collection of original vernacular photographs documenting..... More

[San Francisco: Nichibei Kinema Co., ca. 1940s]. 16pp. Original illustrated self wrappers, stapled. Minor wear and foxing. A likely unique program issued by the Soko Art Association and the Nichibei Kinema Company in San Francisco, advertising a dance and music performance by "the star of the Los Angeles dance world..... More