Ganbatte : sixty-year struggle of a kibei worker / by Karl G. Yoneda ; introduction by Yuji Ichioka.

This text includes black and white photographs depicting Karl Yoneda throughout his life, as well as photographs of family members, colleges, and events from his personal and professional life.

Includes index (pages 233-244).

Part One: the struggle begins -- I. Angel Island --

Part One: the struggle begins -- II. Joining the Communist party: Organizing farm workers --

Part One: the struggle begins -- III. Struggles during early depression years: National unemployed council -- Anti-deportation campaign -- Worse beating --

Part One: the struggle begins -- IV. I become Rodo Shimbun editor: The heritage of Sen Katayama -- The great 1934 maritime strike -- Communist assembly candidate --

Part One: the struggle begins -- V. Organizing Alaska cannery workers: Underground work -- "Packing a hook" -- Tom Mooney freed --

Part Two: World War II and "evacuation" -- VI. Pearl Harbor: "Jap hunting licenses" --

Part Two: World War II and "evacuation" -- VII. Manzanar volunteer: Manzanar citizens federation - Nisei enlistment petition --

Part Two: World War II and "evacuation" -- VIII. Volunteer for U.S. military intelligence service: Battle of Myitkyina, Burma -- V-J day in Kunming, China --

Part Three: Post World War II -- IX. New conflicts: Operating a chicken ranch --

Part Three: Post World War II -- X. Visiting my mother in Hiroshima: Our other visits to Japan --

Part Three: Post World War II -- XI. Author first book - give first lecture: Invitation to academic conferences -- Anti-Vietnam war activities --

Part Three: Post World War II -- XII. Politics, Japanese-American-style: Repeal of Title II -- JACL Bay Area community chapter -- Redress/reparations -- Manzanar pilgrimages -- Japanese Americans in politics --

Part Three: Post World War II -- XIII. ILWU and its conventions: Related activities --

Part Three: Post World War II -- XIV. Communist Party, USA: Detroit CPUSA convention --

Part Three: Post World War II -- XV. Sixty-years of struggle: Revisiting Angel Island -- "Youth never dies."

"Karl Yoneda and his wife are the sort of unfragmentable human beings from whom gods and demigods must have been fabricated in ancient times. Perhaps they come as close to being heroes of the modern world as we are likely to get in this post-industrial era. But no such claims will be found in the autobiography. On the contrary, as Yuji Ichioka reports in his introduction, Karl Yoneda "self-effacingly describes himself as 'an ordinary working stiff'"...Karl took the lead in organizing restaurant workers, Japanese printers, agricultural laborers, workers in the Alaska canneries. He edited Rodo Shimbun, Japanese language organ of the American Communist Party...Yoneda's writings on Japanese American labor history have been published and widely read in Japan, but this is the first book-length work of his to appear in English. It will prove a valuable source for scholars of labor history, and of radicalism and Japanese American history. The grass roots detail of organizational activity is what is generally lost in transmission, and this Yoneda provides in rich abundance." -- From the book jacket.