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: 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. The number of Japanese moving to Hawaii through labor contracts and also through repayment arrangements made between immigrants and their home villages greatly increased during the last years of the nineteenth century. The official census of Hawaii counted 12,610 Japanese citizens in 1890, and that number had increased to more than 60,000 by the turn of the century. The new Japanese residents of Hawaii set up communities that resembled Japanese villages around the boundaries of plantations. The influx of Japanese to the islands was mutually beneficial because it provided jobs to those displaced by the Meiji Restoration. The thousands of new workers helped increase the productivity of the sugar cane and pineapple fields.