The History of Japanese Immigrants in America: # 1 The First Group People of Immigrants from Japan

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.

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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meiji_period

http://www.gliah.uh.edu/

http://www.census.gov/

www.picturehistory.com

http://www/aafny.org/

http://ragz-international.com/asian_amerians.htm

Books;

The Japanese in America Noel L. Leathers, Ph.D.

Japanese America Paul R. Spickars