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Hawaiian Journal of History. 1. hdl: 10524/528. Ogawa, Dennis M. ed. Kodomo no tame ni = For the sake of the children : the Japanese American experience in Hawaii (U of Hawaii Press, 1978) online, excerpts from essays by experts; Okihiro, Gary Y. Cane fires: the anti-Japanese movement in Hawaii, 1865–1945 (Temple University Press, 1991) online
The history of Hawaii is the story of human settlements in the Hawaiian Islands beginning with their discovery and settlement by Polynesian people between 940 and 1200 AD. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The first recorded and sustained contact with Europeans occurred by chance when British explorer James Cook sighted the islands in January 1778 during his third ...
[10] Between 1894 and 1924, roughly 170,000 Japanese immigrants went to Hawaii as private contract laborers, family members of existing immigrants, and merchants. [10] Taking refuge from Japanese imperialism and growing poverty and famine in Korea, and encouraged by Christian missionaries, thousands of Koreans migrated to Hawaii in the early ...
The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 had a significant impact for Japanese immigration, as it left room for 'cheap labor' and an increasing recruitment of Japanese from both Hawaii and Japan as they sought industrialists to replace Chinese laborers. [5] "Between 1901 and 1908, a time of unrestricted immigration, 127,000 Japanese entered the U.S." [5]
The high endogamy, immigration, and fertility rates of the Japanese quickly allowed them to form the plurality of Hawaii's population starting from the late 1800s. After the breakout of World War II, more than 110,000 Japanese Americans in the mainland U.S., who mostly lived on the West Coast, were forced into internment camps.
1866: Japanese students arrive in the United States, supported by the Japan Mission of the Reformed Church in America which had opened in 1859 at Kanagawa. [7] 1868: 150 Japanese men immigrated to Hawaii to work on the sugar plantations. Of them 43 stayed and many intermarried with native Hawaiian women and others.
Hawaiian Historical Society established. [19] Harbour deepened. [1] 1893 - January 17: Overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii by Hawaiian League. 1894 - Theo H. Davies & Co. in business. 1896 - Yamato Shinbun Japanese/English-language newspaper begins publication. [6] 1898 City becomes part of the U.S. Territory of Hawaii.
Okinawans in Hawaii (Okinawan: ハワイ沖縄人, romanized: Hawai uchinānchu) number between 45,000 to 50,000 people, or 3% of the U.S. state's total population. [ 2 ] History