Review of Bill Hosokawa. "Colorado's Japanese Americans: From 1886 to the Present"

Coloradoâs Japanese Americans opens cleverly by posing the question: ââwhat have the Japanese⦠. . . done in the century they have been in Colorado to make it a better state, a better place? What have they done for themselves, and for America?â â The answer Hosokawaâs answer provides is ââmuchâ muchâ (p. 245). This richly detailed history of the Japanese American experience in Colorado is a welcome addition to the trend toward local and regional historical trendstudies in Japanese American history in . As such it providesing a very detailed, predominantly narrative, account of those of Japanese ancestry who have called Colorado home for more than 100 one hundred years