After the dynamiting of a house occupied by a plantation official, the Hawaiian territorial government arrested fifteen strike leaders their trial and conviction helped break the labor union. Although the strikers eventually gave up after six months, the repercussions of the strike had far-reaching consequences. In early 1920, immigrant Japanese sugar cane workers, who provided almost half of the work force on the Hawaiian sugar plantations, went on strike for higher wages. In The Japanese Conspiracy: The Oahu Sugar Strike of 1920, the author examines a little-known event that uncovered anti-Japanese sentiment in Hawaii. Masayo Duus is the author of several works that explore the history of Japanese Americans and relations between the United States and Japan.

Isamu Noguchi: Shukumei no ekkyōsha, Kōdansha International (Tokyo, Japan), 2000, published as The Life of Isamu Noguchi: Journey without Borders, translated by Peter Duus, Princeton University Press (Princeton, NJ), 2004.Ĭontributor to Japanese periodicals. Toppu gan no shi: kakutōsaiki suibotsu jiken/The Death of a Top Gun: The Story behind the Ticonderoga Nuclear Accident, Kōdansha International (Tokyo, Japan), 1994. (As Masayo Umezawa Duus) Nihon no inbō: Hawai Oafutō dai-sutoraiki no hikari to kage, Bungei Shunjū (Tokyo, Japan), 1991, published as The Japanese Conspiracy: The Oahu Sugar Strike of 1920, translated by Beth Carey and adapted by Peter Duus, University of California Press (Berkeley, CA), 1999. Onnatachi, 18-nin no atsui yume, Shinchōsha (Tokyo, Japan), 1987. Hawai ni kaketa onna: hi no shima ni ikita ukeoishi, Iwasaki Tazuko, Bungei Shunjū (Tokyo, Japan), 1985. (As Masayo Umezawa Duus) Buriea no kaihōshatachi, Bungei Shunjū (Tokyo, Japan), 1983 published as Unlikely Liberators: The Men of the 100th and 442nd, translated by Peter Duus, University of Hawaii Press (Honolulu, HI), 1987. Kariforunia Tsūshin, Bungei Shunjū (Tokyo, Japan), 1982. Watakushi ga kaeru futatsu no kuni, Bungei Shunjū (Tokyo, Japan), 1980. Haisha no okurimono (title means 'Gift from a Loser'), Kōdansha International (Tokyo, Japan), 1979.ĭuus Masayo no Amerika dayori (title means 'Life in America'), Bungei Shunjū (Tokyo, Japan), 1979. Reischauer, Kōdansha International ( New York, NY), 1979. Tōkyō Rōzu, Simul Press (Tokyo, Japan), 1976, published as Tokyo Rose: Orphan of the Pacific, translated by Peter Duus, introduction by Edwin O. ADDRESSES:įirst Kōdansha Cultural Award for nonfiction, Kōdansha Publishing, 1977, for Tokyo Rose Oya Prize and Sincho Gakugei Prize, both for The Japanese Conspiracy: The Oahu Sugar Strike of 1920 Kodansha Nonfiction Prize, 2000, for Isamu Noguchi.

Born in 1938, in Hokkaido, Japan married Peter Duus (a professor of history).

Unlikely Liberators by Masayo Duus