Japanese Americans

1. Who were they?

1.1. Japanese Americans are Americans who are fully or partially of Japanese descent, especially those who identify with that ancestry, along with their cultural characteristics.

1.2. They started immigration to the United States in 1868 to Hawaii. Following the Chinese exclusion act of 1882, Japanese immigrants where widely sought out by industrialists to replace the Chinese immigrants.

2. Experience in America

3. Current reality in the United States

4. Why did they come to the United States?

4.1. In 1886, Hawaii and Japan signed a labor convention that lead to a large number of Japanese contract workers in Hawaii.

4.2. Japanese people came tho the United States for better living and work. Others came to start a new life with possible better opportunities.

5. Common Stereotypes