Title: Japanese immigrants » Immigration to the United States
Headings: Japanese immigrants
Japanese immigrants
Profile of Japanese immigrants
Life in Hawaii
Journey to the Mainland
Immigration from Japan, 1860-2008
Pressure Builds to Exclude Japanese
World War II and Japanese Immigrants
From the 1950’s Through the 1970’s
Late Twentieth and Early Twenty-first Centuries
Jonathan L. Thorndike
Further Reading
scot phlander 0 answers 9 сентября 2019 05:03
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Content: This required huge workforces. The native Hawaiians had fled or died out due to the diseases brought by American and European missionaries and white settlers, thus creating a labor market for the Chinese and Japanese. As a part of its new openness to foreign trade, the Meiji government formulated an agreement with Hawaii that made it easier for agricultural workers to leave Japan to work in the plantations. The agreement took the form of a labor contract that allowed American plantation owners to pay for transportation costs to Hawaii. The Japanese were required to work for up to a year to repay the debt. In 1885, approximately 30,000 Japanese workers immigrated to Hawaii. The first-generation Japanese born outside America were known as the Issei. They had few chances for education or goodpaying jobs at home and hoped to save some of the money they earned working in Hawaii. Almost all the Japanese immigrants to Hawaii worked the sugar cane fields and were paid low wages. Some returned to Japan after one year, but many stayed in Hawaii until the opportunity arose to immigrate to the West Coast of the United States.