The Hawaii Japanese Center (HJC) is dedicated to preserving the rich history and traditions of Hawaii's Japanese immigrants. Through our diverse collection of artifacts, photographs, books, and documents, donated by the community, we aim to educate and inspire appreciation for Hawaii's ethnic diver...
HAWAIIHOME economicsJAPANESE AmericansRACENUTRITIONIMPERIALISMIMMIGRANTSThe article examines the rise of domestic science in territorial‐era Hawaii. At the dawn of the twentieth century, as the Pacific became a new frontier, 'manifest domesticity' emerged as a prominent dynamic, and home economics ...
In 1885, the contract laborers from Japan came to Hawaii for the first time. These immigrants faced many difficulties as they tried to make a living by working on the plantations. With the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the outbreak of World War II, many of the Japanese Americans were sent t...
government of thousands ofJapanese Americansto detention camps duringWorld War II. That action was theculminationof the federal government’s long history of racist and discriminatory treatment of Asian immigrants and their descendants that had begun with restrictive immigration policies in the late 1800...
During the Hawaiian sugar industry in the 1800's, thousands of Japanese immigrated to Hawaii. A little known fact is that 10% of all Japanese immigrants came from a small island off the coast of Yamaguchi prefecture called Suo Island. With its calm weather and beautiful beaches, the island ...
In this case, justices ruled unanimously that the War Relocation Authority “has no authority to subject citizens who are concededly loyal to its leave procedure.” The case was brought on behalf of Mitsuye Endo, the daughter of Japanese immigrants from Sacramento, California. After filing a ...
To earn money, large numbers of Japanese men found work in Hawaii in the pineapple and sugar cane plantations and from there, migrated to the mainland. Following in the wake of the Chinese immigrants marked the Japanese immigrants as a part of that group, and resulted in a negative attitude...
History of Japanese in America Like most immigrants, the Japanese began seeking to immigrate to the United States for economic opportunity. For many years, the United States used legislation to bar Asian immigrants from entry. After Japan was opened to trade with the United States by Commodore Ma...
A total of approximately 300,000 Japanese entered the US from the end of the Civil War until 1924 compared to 30 million other immigrants during this period. This Japanese immigration was referred to by journalists as the "Yellow Flood". Many of the Japanese were engaged in agriculture and ...
Meantime, the first pattern of arrivals of Asians to America - in any significant numbers - were the Chinese, in who were pushed out of their homeland but also drawn to the opportunities for employment in Hawaii, the American West, and British Columbia. There were also Korean, Fili... Wo...