| 1952 |
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| 1961 |
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| 1962 |
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| 1963 |
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| 1964a |
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| 1964b |
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| 1964c |
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| 1964d |
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| 1964e |
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| 1965 |
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| 1966a |
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| 1966b |
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| 1966c |
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| 1966d |
− |
| 1966e |
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| 1967a |
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| 1967b |
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| 1967c |
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| 1968a |
− |
| 1968b |
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| 1968c |
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| 1969a |
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| 1969b |
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| 1969c |
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| 1969d |
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| 1970 |
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| 1971a |
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| 1971b |
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| 1972 |
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| 1973 |
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| 1974 |
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| 1975 |
− |
| 1976 |
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| 1978a |
− |
| 1978b |
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| 1980 |
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| 1981a |
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| 1981b |
(312) [Pictures] Japanese and Chinese cannery
worker in California - c. 1900. Workers on
a Japanese rice farm in Texas - c. 1910.
Japanese road-construction workers in California
- c. 1910. (313) Immigration from Japan to
the United States began to increase in 1900.
Like the Chinese Americans before them, Japanese
Americans became farmers, business owners,
and professional people. Others found work
in construction and in industry. |
| 1982a |
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| 1982b |
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| 1982c |
− |
| 1982d |
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| 1982e |
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| 1983a |
− |
| 1983b |
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| 1983c |
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| 1983d |
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| 1984 |
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| 1985a |
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| 1985b |
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| 1985c |
− |
| 1986a |
− |
| 1986b |
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| 1986c |
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| 1986d |
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| 1986e |
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| 1986f |
(369) At first, they also worked on the railroads.
As these jobs disappeared, they began to
work on farms. In time, they bought lands
that nobody else wanted and turned them into
fertile areas. (499) The Japanese came later,
in the 1880s and 1890s. They, too, were limited
to such jobs as small farmers, cannery workers,
gardeners, and servants. |
| 1987a |
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| 1987b |
− |
| 1988 |
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| 1989a |
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| 1989b |
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| 1990a |
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| 1990b |
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| 1990c |
(483) Most Japanese immigrants took up farming
or fishing, but some found work in industry
or opened small shops in some of the cities
of California. |
| 1990d |
(699) Coming first as unmarried males working
on western railroads and in Pacific Coast
canneries, mines, and logging camps, immigrants
from Japan increased from 25,000 in the 1890s
to 125,000 between 1901 and 1908. |
| 1990e |
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| 1991 |
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| 1992a |
− |
| 1992b |
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| 1992c |
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| 1992d |
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| 1992e |
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| 1992f |
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| 1992g |
(150) In the 1880s and 1890s, Japanese immigrants
began to arrive in large numbers. Many Chinese
and Japanese immigrants became factory workers,
shopkeepers, or fruit and vegetable farmers. |
| 1993a |
(558) Segregated in communities of their
own, Asians and Asian-Americans, with few
exceptions, could find only marginal employment.
That was true also of Hispanic-Americans,
most of them agricultural workers in the
Southwest. |
| 1993b |
− |
| 1994a |
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| 1994b |
(695) Coming first as unmarried males working
on western railroads and in Pacific Coast
canneries, mines, and logging Camps, immigrants
from Japan increased from 25,000 in the 1890s
to 125,000 between 1901 and 1908. |
| 1994c |
(455) Many Japanese saved enough money to
travel to California and become successful
farmers there. (498) Japanese immigrants
quickly began to buy or rent farmland of
their own. Entire families worked long, tough
hours in the desert sun. Other Japanese immigrants
branched out into the fishing and canning
industries. The Japanese grew successful
as they became producers as well as suppliers
and distributors of many different goods. |
| 1994d |
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| 1995a |
− |
| 1995b |
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| 1995c |
− |
| 1996a |
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| 1996b |
(367) The immigrants varied widely in age,
marital status, and other social characteristics,
but certain traits stand out. Approximately
two-thirds of the newcomers were men, especially
after 1900, and about two-thirds were between
the ages of fifteen and thirty-nine. Not
all groups were eaually educated, but almost
three-fourths of the immigrants could read
and write, at least in their native languages.
About half identified themselves as unskilled
laborers or domestic workers (maids, cooks,
cleaners). |
| 1996c |
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| 1996d |
− |
| 1996e |
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| 1997a |
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| 1997b |
− |
| 1998a |
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| 1998b |
− |
| 1998c |
(715) Coming first as unmarried males working
on western railroads and in Pacific Coast
canneries, mines, and logging camps, immigrants
from Japan increased from 25,000 in the 1890s
to 125,000 between 1901 and 1908. |
| 1999a |
− |
| 1999b |
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| 1999c |
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