Introduction : transpacific Japanese migration, white American racism, and Japan's adaptive settler colonialism
Immigrant frontiersmen in America and the origins of Japanese settler colonialism
Vanguard of an expansive Japan : knowledge-producers, frontier-trotters, and settlement-builders from across the Pacific
Transpacific migrants and the blurring boundaries of state and private settler colonialism
U.S. immigration exclusion, Japanese America, and transmigrants in Japan's Brazilian frontiers
Japanese California and its colonial diaspora : Manchuria connections
Japanese Hawai'i and its tropical nexus : translocal remigration to colonial Taiwan and the Nan'yō
Japanese pioneers in America and the making of expansionist orthodoxy in Imperial Japan
The call of blood : Japanese American citizens and the education of the empire's future "frontier fighters"
Epilogue : the afterlife of Japanese settler colonialism
Glossary of Japanese names : remigrants from the continental United States and Hawai'i.