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Peer reviewedAtkinson, Donald R.; Matsushita, Yoshiko J. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1991
Japanese Americans (N=68) completed acculturation scale and rated credibility and attractiveness of counselor in tape-recorded simulated counseling session. Bicultural participants rated counselor as more attractive than did Western-identified participants. Japanese-American counselor was rated as more attractive than white-American counselor when…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Buddhism, College Students, Counseling
Okutsu, Jim – 1980
This paper reviews the results of a survey of institutions of higher education which offer coursework focusing on Japanese Americans and emphasizes the program in Japanese American Studies at San Francisco State University. The results showed a distribution of twenty-eight courses offered at fifteen institutions in California, Washington and…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Bilingual Education, College Curriculum, Course Content
Peer reviewedStephan, Cookie White; Stephan, Walter G. – Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1989
Investigated the antecedents of individual-level ethnic identity among 67 part-Japanese American students in Hawaii and 104 part-Hispanic students in New Mexico. Seventy-three percent of the part-Japanese students and 44 percent of the part-Hispanic students listed multiple identity on at least one measure of ethnic identity, suggesting that…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Differences, Ethnicity
Download full textOkamura, Jonathan Y. – 1990
Operation Manong (OM) is a program of the University of Hawaii at Manoa that assists students who are considered to be underrepresented at the university to gain entrance and to graduate from the Manoa campus. Papers in this series are training materials for OM and are also a link between the university and the larger community. The analysis of…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Blacks, Chinese Americans, College Students
Yoshiwara, Florence M. – 1980
An historical review of the immigration and resettlement patterns, and a demographic profile of Japanese Americans reveals a myth of the "successful minority." Since the founding of the Japanese American Citizens League in 1928, Japanese Americans have defeated alien land laws, discriminatory immigration quotas, anti-miscengenation laws,…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Cultural Images, Demography, Elementary Secondary Education
Yamasaki, Erika – 1995
In order to examine the gap between Asian American over-representation in higher education and their under-representation in leadership positions in United States society, this study examined leadership in a Japanese American college student organization, the "Tomo No Kai (Tomo)." In particular it examined the role of personal qualities,…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Asian American Students, Asian Americans, College Students
