History of Japanese Immigrants in Hawaii

The youngest state in the United States is Hawaii, which consists of 132 islands. At first, this area was not the territory of the United States, and it did not become the fiftieth state of the United States until 1959.

Hawaii has a land area of 1670 square kilometers, and the population of the whole state is about one million, mostly Japanese, European and American whites, and many Chinese.

Why is Hawaii so Japanese? To answer this question, we have to go back to history. As early as the 1960s 19, the sugar industry in Hawaii had been mainly developed. At that time, the civil war just broke out, so the sugar industry in Hawaii became an important strategic material during the war. However, it should be mentioned that Hawaii did not belong to the United States at that time. In order to obtain this important material, the United States and Hawaii signed the relevant sugar trade agreement.

In this way, due to the increase in demand, Hawaii has increased the output of sugar industry. However, due to the shortage of local working population at that time, in order to solve the shortage of labor resources, Americans introduced a large number of foreign working population from Japan and Southeast Asia on the principle of "proximity".

Of course, this is just an episode. In fact, Hawaii is a place rich in resources, so long ago, the United States and Japan took a fancy to this treasure land. However, compared with America, Japan is still in a weak position. In order to gain the initiative of this land, Japan wisely adopted other strategic methods to expand its "sphere of influence", that is, constantly "importing" personnel to this land.

With the support and encouragement of the government, a large number of Japanese migrated from Japan to Hawaii. As mentioned earlier, because Hawaii was engaged in the sugar industry at that time, it was in urgent need of labor, because many Japanese who moved to Hawaii at that time were naturally left behind.

After years of reproduction, Japan's population has increased year by year and once became the largest immigrant among the local population. Later, although the war broke out between the United States and Japan, Japan was defeated, and Hawaii fell into the hands of Americans, it did not affect the Japanese population in Hawaii, because before the war broke out, the Japanese had established a firm foothold in this land and had multiplied and expanded their population groups.

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Japanese immigrants in Hawaii from the perspective of history and culture

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