A Study of Loanwords in the Hawaiian Japanese Language

Abstract

It has been over one hundred years since the first Japanese irnmigrants made Hawaii their home in 1868. With the passage of time, both the Hawaii they knew and the Japanese language and customs they practiced have under­ gone profound change. As Hawaii became ever closer diplomatically to the United States, first as a ter­ ritory then as a state, so have the Japanese immigrants and their descendants been acculturated into the American and Hawaiian ways of life.