Kibei
Encyclopedia
Kibei was a term often used in the 1940s to describe Japanese American
s born in the United States
who returned to America after receiving their education in Japan
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Japanese American
are American people of Japanese heritage. Japanese Americans have historically been among the three largest Asian American communities, but in recent decades have become the sixth largest group at roughly 1,204,205, including those of mixed-race or mixed-ethnicity...
s born in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
who returned to America after receiving their education in Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
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Sources
- "Impossible Subjects". Mae Ngai. Part III (p. 173). Princeton University Press. 2004. Princeton, New Jersey.
- Dictionary.com, http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/kibei. Retrieved 11-30-09.