[3] García used content, including descriptions from people, images, and government documents, from the archives of Mexico and the United States.

Toake Endoh of Hawaii Tokai International College wrote that material from Japan in the research "is disproportionately scarce".

[6] Jeffrey Lesser of Emory University wrote that the book "avoids the trap of treating the history of Japanese Mexicans as so unique as to be of self-contained importance" and instead compares them with other immigrant groups in Latin America.

[6] Endoh wrote that "the work is engaging and accessible reading for both general and scholarly audiences" and that the "findings and wealth of documents are valuable additions to the study of Japanese migration, and should inspire future research.

"[10] He praised the use of archival material and added that the pre-World War II immigration discussion is "One of the major strengths of this book".

"[13] He criticized the lack of precision in some vocabulary, such as what was meant with the word "Japanese", but characterized that as one of several minor "quibbles" reviewers of academic literature frequently have.

[14] Eric Boime of San Diego State University Imperial Valley Campus wrote that the book "proves more than up to the task [...] to recover the Japanese experience in Mexico through World War II.