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Japanese immigrants were able to maintain strong cultural traditions in Hawaii, including establishing Buddhist temples and the first Japanese schools in what would be the United States. (Hawaii became a territory in 1898 and a state in 1959.)
May 27, 2018 · On June 19, 1868 — 17 years before what is considered the first mass immigration of Issei to Hawaii — a diverse group of 149 men, women and children arrived in Honolulu Harbor after...
- Christie Wilson
The influx of Japanese workers, along with the Chinese, Filipino, Korean, Portuguese, and African American laborers that the plantation owners recruited, permanently changed the face of Hawaii. In 1853, indigenous Hawaiians made up 97% of the islands' population.
Learn about the thousands of Japanese immigrants who moved to Hawaii between 1885 and 1924 to work on the sugar cane and pineapple plantations. Discover how they brought their culture and religion to the islands and organized strikes against the plantations.
- The Chinese
- The Japanese
- The Portuguese
Chinese laborers were the first immigrant group to arrive in Hawaii for work on the plantations and numbered more than 50,000 between 1852 and 1887. Many also arrived to work on rice plantations throughout the Islands, which replaced kalo(taro) as a mass-farmed crop at the time. After finishing their contracts, about a third returned to China. Many...
Between 1885 and 1924, more than 200,000 Japanese immigrated to Hawaii as plantation laborers until their arrivals suddenly stopped with the Federal Immigration Act of 1924. “After that, the door was shut,” says Ogawa. “So it’s the only (Hawaii) ethnic group really defined by generation.” The Issei, or first generation, kept strong connections to J...
More than 16,000 Portuguese immigrants, many of them from the offshore islands of Madeira and the Azores, arrived in Hawaii from 1878 to 1911 to work the plantations. While Chinese and Japanese workers arrived in the Islands as single men, however, the Portuguese came as families, with plans to stay. Being European, they were offered superior contr...
On February 8, 1885, about 900 Japanese immigrants arrived in Hawaii. These immigrants were mostly men, and went to work in Hawaii’s sugar cane plantations. They worked very hard. They weeded fields and cut down the cane plants when the crop was ready to harvest.
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Immigration: Japanese Arrival in Hawaii. 1868- First group of contract laborers (141 men, 6 men, 2 children) arrive in Hawaii, these people are known as the Gannen-mono or “first year people”.
