Japanese And Japanese American Museum

Throughout this research, a study of multiple primary sources were utilized to apprehend information about the evolution of Japanese American women.The primary quantative research information as mainly taken from “Issei, Nisei, Warbride” by Evelyn Nakano Glenn, which thoroughly describes the two earlier generation and some of the struggles they faced coming to the United States. I also utilized njahs.org in order to gather some information about the main difference of the Issei, Nisei,and Sansei. Also it provide great information about what were some opportunities they were able to attain because they were a Sansei women.lastly i utilized a few articles from the Amerasia Journal

Throughout history, interracial relations have had a big impact within the Asian American community. There was an increase in the number of interracial relationships, particularly between Asian women and American soldiers as they served overseas in Asian countries and spent time in military bases. The War Brides Act of 1945 allowed U.S servicemen to bring their alien brides and families to the U.S following World War II. In 1947, an amendment made it possible for U.S soldiers to bring their Japanese and Korean wives. After that enactments, thousands of women from Korea, Japan, China, Vietnam, and the Philippines came to the U.S as war brides. Often these women were looked down upon, were seen as “tainted”, and were shunned. These relationships changed the demographic population of the Asian American community because there was a bigger population of mixed raced children. These

To be a Japanese immigrant in the early 1900s was difficult but after December 7, 1941 things only got worse. On December 7, 1941, the Japanese Imperial Navy attacked the United States naval base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. “Although conflict had been underway in both Europe and Asia for years, the United States did not formally enter the hostilities until December 8, when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt famously declared the attack on Pearl Harbor ‘a day which we live in infamy’ and asked Congress for a declaration of war” (Wu and Izumi). After the attack on Pearl Harbor “race became increasingly associated with loyalty in the United States” (Harth 254). “What Japan had done was blamed on Japanese Americans” (Wu 2). On February 19, 1942 President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066. Executive Order 9066 granted the secretary of war and his commanders the power “to prescribe military areas in such places and of such extent as he or the appropriate Military Commander may determine, from which any or all persons may be excluded” (Executive Order 9066). “Although the text of Executive Order 9066 did not specifically mention Japanese Americans, it was intended to apply to them exclusively” (G. Robinson and G. Robinson 4).

In 1869, the first Japanese Immigrants arrived in California in an attempt to escape the Meiji restoration, which forced them out of their houses. Many joined them in America after that, forming the first generation of Japanese-Americans, the Issei. Those immigrants then formed families and gave birth to the second generation, the Nisei. However, the cultural differences between the Issei and the Nisei, who were all born in America, created an important gap between the two generations. The short story “Seventeen Syllables”, through the relation between Rosie, a Nisei young girl, and Tome Hayashi, her mother, is a good depiction of this issue.

The Japanese American National Museum is located in the heart of Little Tokyo, surrounded by many ramen diners, mini malls, and japanese boutiques. The museum opens up chronologically, starting off by displaying the migration of the Japanese with their aspirations to start a new life in America. After many displays of progress and struggles, the bombing of Pearl Harbor resulted in Japanese evacuation and eventually the internment of the Japanese as the United States entered World War Two. After many emotional and disheartening displays of life in the internment camps came the reparations and apologies from the American Government. In the last gallery there was pictures and displays of the modern era Japanese arts and culture.

Japanese Americans during World War II were displaced from their homes and placed in concentration camps (Takaki, 147). “In the War, we are now engaged in racial affinities are not severed by immigrations” (Takaki, 148). Furthermore, Japanese Americans were not citizens due to the exclusion of Asian people

Between 1861 and 1940 more than 250,000 Japanese immigrated to the United States and settled in Hawaii. They made a living by working in the sugarcane fields as contract workers. Once their contracts ended some stayed on and started a life there. Others moved on and settled on the West Coast of the mainland.

After the raid on Pearl Harbor, there were still about 120,000 Japanese-Americans living in the United States. In order to prevent panic and hysteria against Japanese-Americans, President Roosevelt ordered that 110,000 Japanese pack their things and move to internment camps for the nation’s safety. After this, ordinary Americans turned their backs to their Japanese-American friends. There was a sudden prejudice and fear of these people, who in fact posed a minimal threat. According to Holt McDougal’s The Americans, “about two thirds were Nisei, or Japanese people born in this country of parents who emigrated from Japan” (McDougal). Nisei had American nationalities, many had never stepped foot on Japanese soil, but the American people believed that these true Americans were loyal to a nation they had never even laid eyes on, purely because their President had told them

I came the Japanese American National Museum on a Saturday afternoon and the admission was 10 dollar. First of all, I am not Japanese, but I felt a connection when I was browsing around the museum. So start from Left to Right to see everything in chronological order. There are a few rooms full of photo, costumes, and Objects. The exhibit that was on display was focused on World War II internment camps. It was fun to see pictures of Los Angeles and Hawaii from the 1930-1960’s. The black and whites photos told such a wonderful story. I gained a new understanding of the hurt and discrimination that was inflicted upon the Japanese Americans and other Asians living in the United States at the time of World War II by the United States Government.

In the early 1940’s and as the war progressed, the treatment and perception of Japanese Americans, most of the western parts, like California, got progressively worse. The prejudice against the Japanese steamed from the treatment of the Chinese in America and how they provided cheap labor for the United States, cheating “regular Americans” out of their jobs. Once the Japanese started to have a significant demographic in California, concern swept across “Americans” once again, fearing cheap labor and lack of jobs once more. As tensions grew, the American paranoia of a Japanese invasion/revolt also increased. Once the American government decided that they would relocate all of the Japanese Americans to a “safer” sight, to prevent any spies from

The attack on Pearl Harbor occurred on December 7, 1941, when the Empire of Japan bombed the U.S. naval base in Hawaii, wiping out America’s naval power in the Pacific. The shock of the attack caused hostility towards Japanese Americans and widespread prejudice against them. In 1954, Commodore Matthew Perry opened contact and for the first time, the number of Japanese immigrants in the U.S. reached 1,000. Of the immigrants, most expected to move back to Japan once they had made enough money to buy land, but an inability to save enough meant that by 1920 there were a reported “110,010 Japanese in the U.S. mainland,” states the article “A Loaded Weapon.” As Japanese males were not allowed to marry white women due to customs, the practice emerged

During the early 1900s thousands of Japanese women would find themselves traveling to the United States and would meet their husband they had never met before. The women knew nothing of this man besides “knowing” what he looked like. As the men were agricultural laborers that worked in harsh conditions and were mostly older than they seemed, so they did not look like the young studs in the pictures they sent to brides in Japan. One of the reasons for Japanese women being sent to America and marrying Japanese American farmers was because of the Gentlemen’s Agreement act going into effect in 1908. The treaty prohibited the entry of Japanese laborers from entering the United States, while allowing the Japanese government to permit women to emigrate as family members to America. This left married men to bring their wives to America, while bachelors would arrange marriages by exchanging photographs, thus establishing the picture bride system in America. The only way the picture bride system was able to pass by the strict immigration laws was because in Japan the women could have their wedding ceremonies with the groom absent and would just have to enter their names in the spouses’ family register, thus the Japanese used this as a loophole in the Gentlemen’s Agreement. The picture bride system was the best ways for the Japanese bachelors to start families in America because it

I went to World War I Museum with other AAP students last Saturday. It was a fantastic trip for me. Moreover, he World War I memorial was a remarkable place to see the whole Kansas City. There were a lot of things are intrigued me, especially the artworks.

During the late 1800's, there was a large rise in the immigration of Japanese to the U.S, much to the dismay of many American citizens. The Japanese have long been discriminated against in the U.S. People have thought they are sly, treacherous, cruel… In other words, they were strangers. People, as a whole, fear the unknown. Individuals of Asiatic descent have been so singled out for so long

The reasons for immigration to the "land of opportunity" called America in the early years of our country are clear. America was seen as a place where an individual could start over with an equal chance of success or failure, offered jobs, no matter what country he or she came from. This proved to be true for Irish immigrants, German-American immigrants, English and black immigrants that came to America. However, this was not the same for many of the Japanese immigrants. One of the many challenges Japanese immigrants faced when they arrived in the United States was the efforts of politicians, intellectuals, and community leaders to label Japanese an "undesirable race." Known collectively as the "anti-Japanese exclusion movement," these efforts ranged from introducing discriminatory legislation that discouraged further Japanese immigration, encouraging and enforcing boycotts of Japanese businesses, and spreading propaganda that offered a multitude of reasons to justify the exclusion of Japanese from the United States.