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More imagesPublished by Gaimushu (Ministry of Foreign Affairs), Tokyo 1924
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- First Edition
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Trade paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. "A Japanese Foreign Ministry publication which compiles into one volume the communications between the Foreign Ministry and the Japanese Embassy on the 1924 Immigration Act and other proposed discriminatory legislation. Also contains Japanese translations of English materials rela…ting to the Act and other proposed legislation and the Japanese government's formal protest notes."?A Buried Past, 210 and 211 ("A supplement to above"). The supplement is in English, with texts of legislation, communiques, and other documents. The Japanese government viewed the 1924 Johnson-Reed Immigration Act as a violation of the 1907 Gentlemen's Agreement, in which the Japanese government voluntarily restricted emigration to the United States. The Johnson-Reed Act set quotas for European immigration and barred immigrants from Asia. 2, 13, 5, 172, 37 pages. Supplement: 3, 268 pages. OCLC: 16523765 (both volumes: Stanford, UC Berkeley, LC, Hawaii). First editions of both volumes. Ex-library copies with shelf labels on the front covers and a red library chop stamp marked discarded on the last page of each volume. Covers worn and stained.
