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    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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  • portal Hawaii portal Taiwan portal United States portal Filipinos in Hawaii Japanese in Hawaii Puerto Rican immigration to Hawaii Korean immigration to Hawaii...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    ended immigration of Japanese workers (i.e., men), but permitted the immigration of spouses of Japanese immigrants already in the US. The Immigration Act...
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  • sustained contact with Europeans. American immigration, led by Protestant missionaries, and Native Hawaiian emigration, mostly on whaling ships but also...
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    Morgan, William Michael (September 1982). "The Anti-Japanese Origins of the Hawaiian Annexation Treaty of 1897". Diplomatic History. 6 (4). Oxford University...
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    and Japan. Tensions arose with the 1924 American immigration law that prohibited further immigration from Japan.[page needed] By the 1920s, Japanese intellectuals...
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    19th century, several laws and treaties which attempted to slow immigration from Japan were introduced. The Immigration Act of 1924, which followed the...
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    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...
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    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...
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    Treaty of 1875 allowed Hawaiʻi to sell sugar to the United States without paying duties or taxes, greatly increasing plantation profits. This treaty also...
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    captain. In the late 19th century, immigration from China and Japan was restricted. In the 1920s, restrictive immigration quotas were imposed but political...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    rights organizations, and labor unions challenged proposals of restrictive immigration and pushed for a more inclusive immigration reform. Opponents of the...
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  • 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...
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    Kalākaua's 1881 world tour (category History of immigration to Hawaii)
    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...
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    in the 1868 Burlingame Treaty between the U.S. and China, political and labor organizations rallied against "cheap Chinese labor". Newspapers condemned...
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    trip around the world to encourage the immigration of contract sugar plantation workers. He wanted Hawaiians to broaden their education beyond their...
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    Immigration and Labor: The Economic Aspects of European Immigration to the United States (1912) (full text online) Joseph, Samuel; Jewish Immigration...
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    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...
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    disasters and heavy taxation. In Hawaii, plantation owners who had relied upon Chinese and Japanese labor faced a labor shortage after the Chinese Exclusion...
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  • 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...
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    Foreign Minister of Japan, Anglo-Japanese Treaty of Commerce and Navigation Viscount Torii Tadafumi: Vice Consul to the Kingdom of Hawaii Viscount Ishii Kikujiro:...
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    population. On April 1, 2019, Japan's revised immigration law was enacted, protecting the rights of foreign workers to help reduce labor shortages in certain sectors...
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