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In recent years, research into the links between Japanese Buddhism and Japanese colonialism has become a distinct subfield. At the same time, Japanese American studies has begun to look at Japanese migration to the U.S. and the U.S. Territory of Hawaii in the context of Japanese colonialism. This talk bridges these two subfields by examining the rhetoric of world peace at two “Pan-Pacific” conferences of Buddhist youth groups that gathered Japanese and Japanese American Buddhists (as well as delegates from mainland Asia) in 1930 and 1934 in the context of Japanese, American, and British colonialism in the Asia-Pacific.