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The Japanese and Korean Exclusion League was formed in San Francisco, California in May 1905, two months after the California State Legislature passed a unanimous resolution requesting that Congress “limit and diminish the further immigration of Japanese.” [1] The resolution passed within a week after the San Francisco Chronicle began ...
The Story of Japanese Farming in California (1957) Ferguson, Edwin E. "The California Alien Land Law and the Fourteenth Amendment." California Law Review 35 (1947): 61+. Ichioka, Yuji. "Japanese immigrant response to the 1920 California alien land law." Agricultural History 58.2 (1984): 157–178. Finds little impact of 1913 law, more impact ...
Oyama v. State of California, 332 U.S. 633 (1948) was a United States Supreme Court decision that ruled that specific provisions of the 1913 and 1920 California Alien Land Laws abridged the rights and privileges guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment to Fred Oyama, a U.S. citizen in whose name his father, a Japanese citizen, had purchased land.
The Empire of Japan's State Department negotiated the so-called Gentlemen's Agreement in 1907, a protocol where Japan agreed to stop issuing passports to its citizens who wanted to emigrate to the United States. In practice, the Japanese government compromised with its prospective emigrants and continued to give passports to the Territory of ...
The Japanese American Bar Association (JABA) is an American legal organization offering Japanese American legal professionals a forum to discuss issues and network. It has been on the forefront of advocacy on many issues affecting Japanese Americans. [1] It is based in Los Angeles, California and was founded in 1976. [2]
A movement in a myriad of rural counties across deep blue states such as Illinois and California to split off and form new states appears to be gaining some steam in the wake of the Nov. 5 election.
Doi and her family relocated from California to Osaka, Japan, in 2022. Genie Doi In 2019, a shooting near her son's daycare center reaffirmed Genie Doi's decision to relocate.
The Immigration Act of 1907 was a piece of federal United States immigration legislation passed by the 59th Congress and signed into law by President Theodore Roosevelt on February 20, 1907. [2] The Act was part of a series of reforms aimed at restricting the increasing number and groups of immigrants coming into the U.S. before World War I .