The Importance Of Japanese Migration To The United States

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The immigration of Japanese to the United States started in 1868, and the population of Japanese immigrants peaked in 1900s. Many Japanese immigrants worked as farmers in vegetable fields; they gained income, and some of them could save money to purchase land. They also made a large contribution towards the prosperity of the landowners.

Although they established an advantageous relationship with the landowners, since the late 1900s, they had faced unfair labor conditions which were related to the landowner’s expectation. The landowners controlled every aspect of farm operations to reduce the economic independence of the Japanese so as to keep their labors.

The unfair labor conditions was not only related to the landowner’s greediness, but also to the political ax. Because intense anti-Japanese sentiment developed on the West Coast in 1900s, the U.S. government started to prohibit the Japanese
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The agreements with the landowners caused to reduce income, and they faced poverty. American policy toward the Japanese immigrants succeeded to take ambition for the future from the Japanese immigrants in the U.S. I agree that the Japanese labors were victim of the friction between the United State and Japan. The Japanese who worked for American never expected the friction, and they couldn’t anything with it. However, I can’t hardly point out the possibility that they might negotiate their labor conditions with the landowners. Moreover, although my sources lack of the reason why anti-Japanese movement was developed, the Japanese in the United States might help to eliminate anti-Japanese sentiment. In spite of the possibilities for improvement of their situation, it is obvious that the Japanese immigrants had had difficulty cased the prosperity of the landowners and the friction between the United States and

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