- The year first group 186 people of immigrants from Japan
In 1869, soon after
commodore Perry believed the Japanese to open their ports to American
traders, Emperor Meiji (explain) became the absolute sovereign of
Japan. Almost at once he began to modernize his nation by sending
Japan’s most intelligent young men throughout the world to learn
the ways of the west. They went to nearly every modern nation on the
globe, including the United States, Great Britain, Germany, France,
and Russia.
(Explain)
The Meiji
Restoration of 1868 ended the 265year-old feudalistic Tokugawa shogun
ate. Itagaki Taiseke a powerful leader.
The Meiji
Restoration had sought to return the emperor to a preeminent
position; efforts were made to establish a Shinto-oriented state much
like the state of 1,000 years earlier.
The Meiji
government assured the foreign powers that it would follow the old
treaties negotiated by the bakufu and announced that it would act in
accordance with international law.
The beginning of a
new era in Japan history. The capital was relocated from Kyoto, where
it had been situated since 764, to Tokyo, the new name for Edo.
The Meiji
constitution was to last as the fundamental law until 1947.
- Many Japan did not want to the modernization of Japan
Some were opposed to building big
factories. Some disliked the simple of working in dreary establish as
slaves to machinery. Others did not want to take part in wars or to
serve in the army or navy. Still others were deeply concerned over
the rise of military leaders and the glorification of ideas of force
and might. For theses and other reasons, many Japanese people decided
that they should leave their homeland.
Other Japanese
decided to emigrate for economic reasons. The growing population
meant that land was becoming smaller and smaller. It was increasingly
difficult to produce enough food to meet their needs.
Low wages also
encouraged many Japanese to emigrate. Japanese worker had learned the
art of organizing unions and other group to improve their working
conditions, hours, and pay, the expansion of trade had given Japanese
trade delegation and representative’s opportunities to travel
abroad. Japanese business men, officials, and seamen thus became
aware of the opportunities in foreign lands. They saw the better
economic conditions that existed outside and so became interested in
emigration.
- Places in the U.S. first immigrant settled
The first 186
people of Japanese immigrants to come to the United States settled,
West Coast, Central
Valley, California
Los Angeles, San Francisco, California
Tacoma, Seattle, Washington
Portland, Oregon.
4. Subsequent Japanese immigrants
In 1890, the second Japanese immigrants arrived a labor in Honolulu, Hawaii.
There was major reason for the sudden increase in Japanese immigration the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 stopped the immigration from China to America.
4. Subsequent Japanese immigrants
In 1890, the second Japanese immigrants arrived a labor in Honolulu, Hawaii.
There was major reason for the sudden increase in Japanese immigration the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 stopped the immigration from China to America.
5. The pattern of immigration from Japan to Hawaii is very similar to the immigration to the mainland of the United States.
References;
http://en,
wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese American”
http://www.gliah.uh.edu/
Books;
The Japanese in
America Noel L. Leathers, Ph.D.
Japanese America
Paul R. Spickars
Issei and Nisei the
settlings of Japanese America Ronald Takaki
