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
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Content: Japanese immigrants » Immigration to the United States
Japanese immigrants
Immigrant groups / Agricultural workers / East asian immigrants
Significance: Fromthe 1880’s, Japanese immigration to Hawaii and the western states made the Japanese one of the largest Asian ethnic groups in the United States. Though mostly blocked by legislation between 1924 and 1965, some Japanese immigration continued through those years. Japanese Americans completely integrated and became very successful in government, business, the sciences, and cultural enterprises. Japanese immigrants awaiting processing at the federal government’s immigrant reception center on San Francisco Bay’s Angel Island during the 1920’s. ( NARA)
The first immigrants from Japan began to arrive in the Hawaiian Islands between 1885 and 1895, following on the heels of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. Plantation owners who were forbidden from hiring Chinese workers hired thousands of Japanese citizens to work in the sugar cane and pineapple fields. About half of these Japanese eventually migrated to California, Oregon, and Washington State. More than 100,000 Japanese people made the journey across the Pacific to Hawaii before 1900, making the Japanese the dominant immigrant group in the islands. The new Meiji emperor of Japan had opened up the country and finally allowed citizens to emigrate.