Crowning the Nice Girl Gender, Ethnicity, and Culture in Hawai'i's Cherry Blossom Festival

After World War II, Japanese Americans in Hawai'i sought to carve a positive niche of public citizenship in the community. In 1953 members of the Honolulu Japanese Junior Chamber of Commerce and their wives created a beauty contest, the Cherry Blossom Festival (CBF) Queen Pageant, which quickly became an annual spectacle for the growing urban population of Honolulu.Yano, Christine R. is the author of 'Crowning the Nice Girl Gender, Ethnicity, and Culture in Hawai'i's Cherry Blossom Festival', published 2006 under ISBN 9780824830076 and ISBN 0824830075.