An Asian American Ancient Historian and Biblical Scholar - Paperbackby Edwin M. Yamauchi (Author), Stephen B. Kellough (Foreword by) An Asian American Ancient Historian and Biblical Scholar is not simply a memoir of Edwin M. Yamauchi. It is an expansive multi generational story of a Japanese American family (Issei, Nisei, Sansei) that began with immigrants from Okinawa, who used a narrow window of time (1900 1915) to emigrate to Hawaii to work on the sugar plantations there. After the suicide of his father when he was