Episode 206 - Across the Sea, Part 2

History of Japan

Isaac Meyer

Japan, History, Japanese

4.8 • 744 Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2017

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

This week, we take a closer look at early communities of Nikkeijin -- people of Japanese descent -- in the United States and Hawaii.

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0:18.0	So Hello and welcome to the History of Japan podcast, Episode 206, Across the Sea Part 2.
0:48.4	This week we're going to take a look at the Japanese immigrant experience in the United States up until World War II.
0:55.3	We talked a little bit about this last week, but as a quick refresher, those Japanese immigrants
1:01.2	were coming from Japan during an economic rough period, caused by 1880s fiscal policies designed
1:08.2	to write the country's fiscal ship, and they were coming into America's
1:12.3	west coast, which was still sort of frontier territory.
1:17.2	You see, when you look at a map of the United States, it looks like the pattern of settlement
1:22.4	by European Americans should follow a natural right-to-left progression, so to speak, from the 13 colonies
1:29.4	that form the U.S. across the country, ending at the West Coast.
1:34.1	In terms of the actual territorial acquisitions in conquest of the United States, that's accurate.
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