浄土真宗本願寺派による初期ハワイ開教と非日系開教使の誕生(II 個人研究)

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There are about 240,000 population of Japanese-American in Hawaii today. Most of them are descendants of Japanese immigrants in late 19^<th> and early 20^<th> century. They came to Hawaii to work at sugarcane fields and farms. They had to endure great hardship living in totally different cultural environment and unreasonable discrimination and prejudice. In 1898, Honpa-Hongwanji officially started mission of Hawaii. This gave early immigrants ample spiritual comfort and center of their community. When we look over the early development of mission of Hawaii by Honpa-Hongawanji, the fact that there exist non-Japanese ministers in early mission of Hawaii, arouse our attention. Why could early mission of Hawaii by Honpa-Hongwanji accept non-Japanese ministers amidst oppression of non-Japanese society? Why did these non-Japanese ministers become ministers? What is the socio-historical and ideological background of their decision? In this paper, I would like to examine these questions.