Oya Soichi Nonfiction Award おおやそういちノンフィクションしょう
Edition 23 (1992)
Nonfiction
Winners
1 peopleThe Japanese Conspiracy: The Oahu Sugar Strike of 1920 is Masayo Duus's nonfiction account of the 1920 sugar-cane workers' strike on Oahu, Hawaii. It closely follows the labor movement of Japanese immigrants within the larger currents that would lead toward the Pacific War.
From a major strike in Hawaii's sugar-cane fields, it portrays immigrant society and the currents before war.
518 pages
immigration historylabor movementHawaii