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News Article: The History of Japanese Immigration to the United States
by Laura Ichise 
In recent years, foreign nationals visiting Japan and Japanese nationals going abroad are rapidly increasing, due to the progress in internationalization of the world community. There are various histories about Japanese immigration to foreign countries. First of all,  the start of the great period of Japanese immigrantion  to the United States was in the 1880s. On May 17,1868, the Scioto set sail out of Yokohama for Hawaii, carrying 153 Japanese migrants bound for employment in the sugar plantations. These adventurers constituted the first mass emigration ofJapanese overseas. As theJapanese arrived, discrimination toward the new immigrants. AsJapanese immigrants willing to work hard for low wages, many American people were afraid Japanese would take away jobs from American people. Between 1886 and 1911, more than 400,000 men and women left Japan for the U.S. Over 28,000 Japanese migrated to Hawaii. Main reasons for this, were because immigrants said the relationship between different races was better in Hawaii, like the Chinese immigrants in Hawaii.