Title: Asian Immigration | Encyclopedia.com
Headings: Asian Immigration
Asian Immigration
Asian Immigration
Early Chinese immigration
The first restrictions on immigration
Early Japanese immigration
Filipino immigration
Further regulation of Asian immigration
Asian immigration, 1965–2000
Southeast Asian immigration

Content: Most Chinese immigrants who entered the United States after the war were women, many of them the wives of Chinese men already in America. Early Japanese immigration
Japan had been an isolated country until the 1860s, when it embarked on a program of industrialization and modernization. This program involved imposing heavy taxes on already impoverished peasants (land
workers), many of whom, encouraged by stories of the “land of money trees,” left Japan for America. Japanese laborers were at first recruited to work on the sugar plantations of the independent kingdom of Hawaii , beginning around 1868. By 1890, some 12,000 Japanese had settled in Hawaii and 3,000 in the United States. In the 1890s, some 50,000 more Japanese came to Hawaii and 22,000 to North America. In 1910, the Japanese population in the United States, by then including the territory of Hawaii, was 153,000. The Japanese government, unlike the Chinese, was able to regulate emigration. Wishing to avoid the problems of gambling, prostitution, and drunkenness that had beset the predominantly male Chinese immigration population, Japan actively promoted the emigration of women. From the end of the Civil War (1861–65) through the early twentieth century, the Japanese were the largest group of Asians to immigrate to the United States.