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The Japanese American National Library (全米日系アメリカ人図書館, Zenbei Nikkei Amerikajin Toshokan) is a private non-lending library and resource center in San Francisco's Japantown for the collection and preservation of materials relating to Japanese Americans. It has been in operation since 1969.
In 1899 Kyutaro Abiko (我孫子 久太郎, Abiko Kyūtarō), a newspaper seller, established the Nichi Bei Shimbun (日米新聞 Nichi Bei Shinbun).The Nichi Bei Foundation said that Kyutaro Abiko was "known to historians as the most influential Japanese immigrant to America," and that the newspaper was "the most influential Japanese American newspaper in the country prior to World War II."
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 ...
Japanese Americans (Japanese: 日系アメリカ人) are Americans of Japanese ancestry. Japanese Americans were among the three largest Asian American ethnic communities during the 20th century; but, according to the 2000 census, they have declined in ranking to constitute the sixth largest Asian American group at around 1,469,637, including those of partial ancestry.
Asian America: Chinese and Japanese in the United States Since 1850. U of Washington Press, 1988. Daniels, Roger. Concentration Camps, North America: Japanese in the United States and Canada during World War II (1981). Daniels, Roger. The Politics of Prejudice: The Anti-Japanese Movement in California and the Struggle for Japanese Exclusion ...
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Little Tokyo (Japanese: リトル・トーキョー), also known as Little Tokyo Historic District, is an ethnically Japanese American district in downtown Los Angeles and the heart of the largest Japanese-American population in North America. [4]
One such policy, implemented in the early 20th century, effectively erased a Japanese presence in the California wine industry, along with what could have been strides forward for domestic winemaking.