The Hawaii-Japanese Annual & Directory / Hawaii nenkan: 1941

Honolulu: Nippu Jiji Co, 1941. Trade paperback. Good. The fifteenth and final volume of this guide to American life and to Hawaii, followed by a directory of the Japanese American residents of Hawaii. This directory was published in February 1941, just over nine months before the attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese air force. It includes a list of community organizations, a directory of businesses, production statistics, results of sporting events, a list of government officials, and a guide to US immigration procedures.

The directory of residents has separately paginated sections for each island with a map of the island inserted before the directory entries. Each entry includes the city where they were born and their profession.

[6], 8, 294, 308, 52, 52, 8, 44, 100, 22 pages plus 32 pages of plates and inserted ads. Printed on newsprint.

OCLC: 41204336 (for the serial; 1941 issue appears to be held by Stanford, Harvard, and perhaps the Library of Congress). A good-only copy, LACKING the outer half of the fold-out map at the front; the final four pages detached at the back and were mounted upsided down on the back cover. The wrappers are worn and the spine is reinforced with clear packing tape. Despite the condition, this is a scarce survivor.