Yokohama, California

Yokohama, California, originally released in 1949, is the first published collection of short stories by a Japanese American. Set in a fictional community, these linked stories are alive with the people, gossip, humor, and legends of Japanese America in the 1930s and 1940s. Replaces ISBN 9780295961675

Toshio Mori (1910–1980) was born in Oakland, California. During World War II, he was interned, with his family, at the Topaz Relocation Center in Utah, where he served as camp historian. Xiaojing Zhou is professor of English at the University of the Pacific and author of Cities of Others: Reimagining Urban Spaces in Asian American Literature.

Introduction to the 2015 Edition by Xiaojing Zhou Standing on Seventh Street: An Introduction to the 1985 Edition by Lawson Fusao Inada Introduction to the Original Edition by William Saroyan Tomorrow Is Coming, Children The Woman Who Makes Swell Doughnuts The Seventh Street Philosopher My Mother Stands on Her Head Toshio Mori The End of the Line Say It with Flowers Akira Yano Lil’ Yokohama The Finance over at Doi’s Three Japanese Mothers The All-American Girl The Chessmen Nodas in America The Eggs of the World He Who Has the Laughing Face Slant-Eyed Americans The Trees The Six Rows of Pompons Business at Eleven The Brothers