Holehole bushi, folk songs of Japanese workers in Hawaii's plantations, describe the experiences of this particular group caught in the global movements of capital, empire, and labor during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In this book author Franklin Odo situates over two hundred of these songs, in translation, in a hitherto largely unexplored historical context. The single most comprehensive and in-depth study of the folk tradition of holehole bushi... an inspiring example of committed and caring research that makes possible a wealth of future work by those interested in honoring the details and complexity of human experience.