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  2. Japanese Americans - Wikipedia

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    Japanese Americans (Japanese: 日系アメリカ人) are Americans of Japanese ancestry. Japanese Americans were among the three largest Asian American ethnic communities during the 20th century; but, according to the 2000 census, they have declined in ranking to constitute the sixth largest Asian American group at around 1,469,637, including those of partial ancestry.

  3. Standard of living in Japan - Wikipedia

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    The living standards of most working-class Japanese also rose considerably during the postwar era, with real wages more than doubling from 1965 to 1975. [14] In the seventies, average living standards in Japan rose to be as high (depending on the measurement) as anyone living in the West.

  4. History of Japanese Americans - Wikipedia

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    The Japanese American Citizens' League (JACL) asked for three measures to be taken as redress: $25,000 to be awarded to each person who was detained, an apology from Congress acknowledging publicly that the U.S. government had been wrong, and the release of funds to set up an educational foundation for the children of Japanese American families.

  5. Oldest living Japanese American, 110, shares her longevity ...

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    With 110 years of life behind her, Yoshiko Miwa isn’t going to wallow in the negative, and she doesn’t want you to either. The oldest living person of Japanese descent in the United States ...

  6. Oldest living Japanese American, 110, who still gets her hair ...

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    Yoshiko Miwa, at 110 years old, is the oldest living American person of Japanese descent and shares the things that have allowed her to live such a long life. Yoshiko Miwa, at 110 years old, is ...

  7. Asian immigration to the United States - Wikipedia

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    Japanese Americans are among the most widely recognized of Asian American sub-groups during the 20th century. At its peak in 1970, there were nearly 600,000 Japanese Americans, making it the largest sub-group, but historically the greatest period of immigration was generations past.

  8. List of Japanese Americans - Wikipedia

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    Sanji Abe (1895–1982), first Japanese American in the Hawaii Territorial Senate (1940–1943) [8] Jeff Adachi (1959–2019), elected Public Defender of San Francisco, a pension reform advocate, and a director of multiple films. Richard Aoki (1938–2009), civil rights activist and co-founder of the Black Panther Party

  9. Japanese-American life before World War II - Wikipedia

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    1815: Japanese castaway Oguri Jukichi was among the first Japanese citizens known to have reached present day California. [3]1834: Three castaways Iwakichi, Kyukichi, and Otokichi, were the sole survivors of a Japanese rice transport ship that had been caught in a typhoon, damaged, and blown far off course before beaching on the northwest corner of the Olympic Peninsula in present-day ...