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J-Town

J-Town. San Jose’s Japantown. 1875 Page Law against entry of Asian laborers 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act specific to Chinese 1885 Alien Contract Labor Law 1917 Immigration Act of 1917, included a literacy test. Immigration Laws. 1921 Quota Act, numerical limitations for the first time

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J-Town

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  1. J-Town

    San Jose’s Japantown
  2. 1875 Page Law against entry of Asian laborers 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act specific to Chinese 1885 Alien Contract Labor Law 1917 Immigration Act of 1917, included a literacy test Immigration Laws 1921 Quota Act, numerical limitations for the first time 1924 Immigration Act further reduced the total number of admissions 1925 the Border Patrol established 1929, immigration to the US limited to 150,000 1934-1935 Laws aimed at limiting immigration of Filipinos
  3. Chinese Exclusion Act 1882
  4. Chinatown San Jose
  5. Chinatown San Jose San Jose’s second Chinatown mysteriously burnt to the ground in 1887
  6. Named for its owner and benefactor, John Heinlen, Heinlenville came about after Heinlen, who liked the Chinese, offered up his own property for the new location. Ignoring the public outrage, it was here that Heinlen built a Chinatown entirely out of brick which he then rented to the Chinese at very low rates. Heinlenville
  7. John Heinlen, a local businessman, braved death threats to lease property to the displaced Chinese. This area near today’s Japantown at Taylor and Sixth became known as Heinlenville . Heinlenville was a center of Chinese-American business and cultural life through the early part of the 20th century. Despite their poverty, the people of Heinlenville donated their earnings from menial jobs to build their much revered Ng Shing Gung, a community center and house of worship. John Heinlen
  8. Immigrants from Japan When the first Japanese began to arrive in San Jose in the 1890’s, they settled east of Sixth Street between Jackson and Taylor Streets, near the Heinlenville Chinatown.
  9. Chinese and Japanese In Santa Clara County 1860-1940 Lukes and Okihiro, 1985:19
  10. Picture Brides
  11. laws enacted by various Western states that prevented Japanese (and other Asian) immigrants from purchasing land. First enacted in the 1910s, the laws generally remained in effect until well after World War II. Alien land acts
  12. the 1908 agreement between Japan and the United States that halted Japanese labor migration to the United States. Gentlemen's Agreement
  13. legislation that restricted overall immigration to the United States and banned further Japanese immigration. Immigration Act of 1924:
  14. Immigration Station
  15. Chinese dining room
  16. Japanese women at Angel Island
  17. The hospital on Angel Island had a state-of-the-art laboratory Racial and ethnic segregation policy at the hospital and immigration station; separate entrances for whites and Asians; separate staircases; separate patient wards—Europeans kept in separate wards Hospital
  18. Sarah Winchester had many Japanese Employees
  19. Tommie Nishihara and granddaughter
  20. Moon Bridge, imported from Japan, belonging to Sarah Winchester
  21. Ito Nishihara with baby daughter, flanked by the Hanson boys at the Winchester Ranch
  22. Mrs. Nishihara and Hanson baby
  23. 1940 Before the WarNisei Queen
  24. Executive Order 9066
  25. After Executive Order 9066 Japanese Ameican Internment
  26. Reporting for registration Obeying the law
  27. Manzanar Uchida Family, three generations
  28. Manzanar California March 1942 10,046 Tule Lake California May 1942 18,789 Poston Arizona May 1942 17,814 Gila River Arizona July 1942 13,348 Granada Colorado August 1942 7,318 Heart MountainWyAugust 1942 10,767 Minidoka Idaho August 1942 9,397 Topaz Utah September 1942 8,130 Rohwer Arkansas Sept 1942 8,475 Jerome Arkansas Oct 1942 8,497 WRA Relocation Centers
  29. Draft Resisters “no no boys”
  30. US Military Masaru Nakagaki
  31. Tule Lake Japanese Language School
  32. Returning After the War Santa Clara Valley
  33. NihonmachiJapantown
  34. “Japantown”Nihonmachi The term "Japantown" encompasses a wide range of communities, from large Nihonmachi in metropolitan areas that include numerous community institutions and businesses, to rural Japantowns with relatively small populations and more limited community facilities.
  35. Why do you think were German-Americans and Italian Americans not encamped?
  36. the first statewide project to document historic resources of pre-World War II Japantowns. Preserving California’s Japantowns
  37. The three Japantowns in San Francisco, San Jose, and Los Angeles are the last of the major Japanese communities to survive the demolition during urban renewal in the 1950’s and 1960’s and the forced evacuation and incarceration of Japanese Americans in concentration camps during World War II. They provide a true sense of place for Japanese Americans today.
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