Ecucational Activities among Japanese Nisei by Japanese Religious Groups in the 1930s

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 23531028
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Educaion
• Research Institution: Doshisha University
• Principal Investigator: YOSHIDA RYO 同志社大学, 社会学部, 教授 (00220690)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): MONOBE Hiromi 同志社大学, グローバル地域文化学部, 准教授 (10434680) ; KOJIMA Masaru 龍谷大学, 文学部, 教授 (40140123) ; TAKEMOTO Hideyo 福岡教育大学, 教育学部, 准教授 (50294484) ; HONDA Aya 兵庫大学, 生涯福祉学部, 講師 (90584798)
• Project Period (FY): 2011-04-28 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 日系人 / アメリカ / エスニシティ / 越境性 / エスニシティ / アメリカ化 / 日本語教育

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study demonstrates the characteristics of the educationalactivities targeting second-generation Japanese Americans, or Nisei, by Japanese religious groups in Hawaii and the Pacific coast states in the 1930s. In particular, this study investigates those educational activities by examining three factors that determined these activities: Americanization education, moral education, and transnational education. It argues that these religious groups played a
role, as “Japanese American” religious groups, in reinforcing “American citizenship” values as well as “transnational” values. Ultimately, this study shows how these religious groups wanted the Nisei to take advantage of the cultural and social resources and influences of both countries.

Free Research Field

教育史