The Japanese in Hawaii (simply Japanese Hawaiians or “Local Japanese”, rarely Kepanī) are the second largest ethnic group in Hawaii. At their height in...

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import cheap, foreign labor. Such immigration and labor practices were prohibited in many states. Puerto Rican immigration to Hawaiʻi began in 1899, when...

Asian immigration to the United States refers to immigration to the United States from part of the continent of Asia, which includes East Asia, South Asia...

stemming from the 1868 Meiji Restoration. Large-scale Japanese immigration started with immigration to Hawaii during the first year of the Meiji period in 1868...

by the agreements of the Treaty of Paris of 1898, most of its industries were taken over by American industrialists. Labor was provided by Puerto Ricans...

The Hawaii Federation of Japanese Labor was a labor union in Hawaii formed in 1921. In the early 1900s, Japanese migrants in Hawaii were the majority...

sustained contact with Europeans. American immigration, led by Protestant missionaries, and Native Hawaiian emigration, mostly on whaling ships but also...

ended immigration of Japanese workers (i.e., men), but permitted the immigration of spouses of Japanese immigrants already in the US. The Immigration Act...

established as the national day of Japanese immigration. In 1973, the flow stopped almost completely after the Nippon Maru immigration ship arrived; at that time...

and Japan. Tensions arose with the 1924 American immigration law that prohibited further immigration from Japan.[page needed] By the 1920s, Japanese intellectuals...

Morgan, William Michael (September 1982). "The Anti-Japanese Origins of the Hawaiian Annexation Treaty of 1897". Diplomatic History. 6 (4). Oxford University...

anti-immigration laws. The Page Act of 1875 prevented the immigration of all women prostitutes from China. This law was used to limit the immigration of...

19th century, several laws and treaties which attempted to slow immigration from Japan were introduced. The Immigration Act of 1924, which followed the...

Treaty of 1875 allowed Hawaiʻi to sell sugar to the United States without paying duties or taxes, greatly increasing plantation profits. This treaty also...

helped make Chinese immigration a sustained national issue. A very important part of the Chinese immigration was the back breaking labor being done on railroads...

captain. In the late 19th century, immigration from China and Japan was restricted. In the 1920s, restrictive immigration quotas were imposed but political...

governments of Japan and the U.S. It ended the immigration of Japanese laborers, though it did allow the immigration of spouses and children of Japanese immigrants...

The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, also known as the Hart–Celler Act and more recently as the 1965 Immigration Act, is a landmark federal law...

rights organizations, and labor unions challenged proposals of restrictive immigration and pushed for a more inclusive immigration reform. Opponents of the...

trip around the world to encourage the immigration of contract sugar plantation workers. He wanted Hawaiians to broaden their education beyond their...

figures in the effort to block Japanese immigration to the United States, which was realized with the passage of the Immigration Act of 1924. McClatchy, accompanied...

King Kalākaua of the Hawaiian Kingdom was his attempt to save the Hawaiian culture and population from extinction by importing a labor force from Asia-Pacific...

in the 1868 Burlingame Treaty between the U.S. and China, political and labor organizations rallied against "cheap Chinese labor". Newspapers condemned...

Immigration and Labor: The Economic Aspects of European Immigration to the United States (1912) (full text online) Joseph, Samuel; Jewish Immigration...

attempts to open it up. Japan eventually succeeded in opening Joseon with the unequal Japan–Korea Treaty of 1876. Afterwards, Japan embarked on a decades-long...

disasters and heavy taxation. In Hawaii, plantation owners who had relied upon Chinese and Japanese labor faced a labor shortage after the Chinese Exclusion...

to prevent immigration of people of Asian origin. In May 1905, a mass meeting was held in San Francisco, California to launch the Japanese and Korean...

did not want to anger Japan by passing legislation to bar Japanese immigration to the U.S. as had been done for Chinese immigration. Instead there was an...

Foreign Minister of Japan, Anglo-Japanese Treaty of Commerce and Navigation Viscount Torii Tadafumi: Vice Consul to the Kingdom of Hawaii Viscount Ishii Kikujiro:...