From migrant workers to political and business celebrities, how did the Japanese counterattack in Hawaii?

How the Japanese will fight back in the next crisis is actually the same as any other immigrant. That is, workers first, and then slowly from workers to celebrities of political businessmen. It is the result of step by step efforts from generation to generation. The first time the Japanese went to Hawaii, it was actually because the labor force in Hawaii decreased at that time, so a large number of labor force flooded into Hawaii. The Japanese were the first laborers to go to Hawaii.

The islands of Hawaii form a unified kingdom. Although this Hawaiian kingdom is ruled by local people, the power of the king is largely supported by western forces. Westerners' support for the king is not in vain. They soon spread sugarcane planting technology to Hawaii, and used it as a base for sugarcane production and started sugarcane business. Sugarcane cultivation requires a lot of manpower. Due to diseases and other factors, Hawaii's indigenous population continues to decrease, and the expansion of sugarcane planting area makes Hawaii urgently need foreign workers to support the local economy.

In order to recruit foreign workers, sugarcane growers in Hawaii have made great efforts. Just like headhunters now, they have started to advertise in neighboring countries. Although Japan is far away, it is still one of the most populous countries relatively close to Hawaii. 1868, American businessmen organized the first batch of Japanese laborers to immigrate to Hawaii. This 153 Japanese is called "first-year immigrant".

1898 In July, the United States passed a resolution to annex Hawaii. Since then, Hawaii has become the territory of the United States. After the United States annexed Hawaii, many Japanese workers were liberated from their original contracts and were free to move to other places. At that time, the average monthly income of Japanese plantation workers in Hawaii was 15 to 18.50, which was half of the income from working in the United States during the same period. In order to find higher-paying jobs or better living conditions, from 190 1 to 1907, more than 50,000 Japanese left Hawaii to work in Seattle and San Francisco on the west coast of the United States. Most of them are engaged in manual labor, such as fishing, farm work and canned food processing.

Although the Japanese in Hawaii were not imprisoned so widely on a large scale, they were all severely discriminated and hostile in the context of the Pacific War. About 2000 Japanese were detained in Hawaii. Japanese temples, martial arts schools and language schools established by the Japanese in Hawaii were severely damaged. Japanese in Hawaii are more eager than ever to prove their loyalty to the United States. Under great psychological pressure, they proved their loyalty to the United States by destroying kimonos, traditional Japanese musical instruments and stopping traditional Japanese customs.

The100th independent infantry battalion, composed of Japanese soldiers in Hawaii, was sent to distant European battlefields in World War II, and made great contributions in the battles of France, Italy and Algeria, becoming the unit with the most honors such as the Purple Heart Medal and the Congressional Medal of Honor in the history of the US military.