Japan and The California Problem
By T. Iyenaga, Ph.D. Professorial Lecturer in the Department of Political Science, University of Chicago
and
Kenoske Sato, M.A. Formerly Fellow in the University of Chicago
G. P. Putnam's Sons New York and London The Knickerbocker Press 1921
Copyright, 1921 by G. P. Putnam's Sons
_Printed in the United States of America_
CONTENTS
PAGE
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTORY 3
CHAPTER II
JAPANESE TRAITS AND PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE 9
Emotional Nature--AEsthetic Temperament--Group Consciousness-- Adaptable Disposition--Spirit of Proletarian Chivalry-- Philosophy of Life--New Turn in Thought.
CHAPTER III
JAPAN'S ASIATIC POLICY 33
Korean Situation--Policy of Self-Preservation--Shantung Settlement--Cooeperation with China--Understanding with America--Japan's Proper Sphere of Activity.
CHAPTER IV
BACKGROUND OF JAPANESE EMIGRATION 50
Causes of Emigration and Immigration--Japan's Land Area-- Agriculture--Population--Industry--Social Factors.
CHAPTER V
ATTEMPTS AT EMIGRATION: RESULTS 64
Australia--Canada--South America--The United States--Results.
CHAPTER VI
CAUSES OF ANTI-JAPANESE AGITATION 75
Modern Civilization--Various Attitudes Towards Japanese-- Psychological Nature of the Cause--Chinese Agitation Inherited--Local Polities--"Yellow Peril"--Propaganda-- Racial Difference--Japanese Nationality--Modern Nationalism-- Congestion in California--Fear and Envy Incited by Japanese Progress--Summary.
CHAPTER VII
FACTS ABOUT THE JAPANESE IN CALIFORNIA--POPULATION AND BIRTH RATE 90
Number of Japanese in California--Immigration--"Gentlemen's Agreement"--Smuggling--Birth Rate--What we May Expect in the Future.
CHAPTER VIII
FACTS ABOUT THE JAPANESE IN CALIFORNIA--FARMERS AND ALIEN LAND LAWS 120
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: Japan and the California Problem by Iyenaga
- 2: As Reported by Foreign Department
- 3: The Oriental problems in California
- 4: Of close cooeperation between them
- 5: Making the Japanese appear dissimulating
- 6: Some of them maintain that the Ainu
- 7: This myth is faithfully believed by the Japanese
- 8: Bushido has found an able propounder in Dr
- 9: The present proletarian movement in Japan
- 10: Japan first borrowed Confucianism and Buddhism
- 11: And more recently by Lotze and Eucken
- 12: With its over emphasis on individualism
- 13: The interest of Japan is overwhelmingly Asiatic
- 14: By uprooting the militaristic regime
- 15: The Shantung question still remains in abeyance
- 16: So this curt phrase Shantung clause
- 17: In cooeperation with the natives
- 18: The land area of Japan Proper is 147
- 19: Parallel with the effort to extend the tillable land
- 20: 000 per annum within Japan proper alone
- 21: 000 kan one kan is approximately equal to 8
- 22: Have always been frowned upon in Japan
- 23: Examination in a European language for the Asiatics
- 24: 823 Japanese residing in Canada to day
- 25: Which first took definite shape in 1900
- 26: Offering the line of least resistance for Japanese
- 27: There are the veteran exclusionists
- 28: It had done nothing regarding the Japanese
- 29: A propagandist would say to honest laborers
- 30: Which is fundamentally nationalistic
- 31: Fear and Envy Incited by Japanese Progress
- 32: Number of Japanese in California
- 33: This is shown in the following table
- 34: Contrary to the Japanese tendency
- 35: But these Japanese visitors are not immigrants
- 36: Only two classes of immigrants
- 37: For practical administrative purposes
- 38: And 585 were persons not entitled
- 39: Smuggling may be completely prevented
- 40: 195 Japanese wives in California
- 41: If fresh immigration is checked
- 42: History of Japanese Agriculture in California
- 43: Ambitious Japanese farm laborers soon become tenants
- 44: The Japanese are preferred to other races
- 45: Their highly transitory character
- 46: The Japanese feed and dress well
- 47: A greater acreage of land being devoted to each of them
- 48: Of the agricultural lands of California
- 49: In the territories of the other
- 50: Or corporation owning agricultural land
- 51: And Japanese juridical persons
- 52: CHAPTER IXASSIMILATION Nationalism and Assimilation
- 53: After all means for their assimilation have been exhausted
- 54: Consider it indisputable that they are assimilable
- 55: Our second query Is intermarriage desirable
- 56: 44 From his extensive association with Japanese
- 57: Is Assimilation without Intermarriage Possible
- 58: A recognized authority on anthropology
- 59: And ideals that are peculiar to Japan
- 60: Assimilability of Japanese Immigrants
- 61: And further immigration can be stopped
- 62: And retaining many of the Japanese customs and manners
- 63: In the chapter on the background of Japanese emigration
- 64: Under the topic of the Japanese farmer
- 65: For the Japanese living in California
- 66: And particularly of California
- 67: And even to Japanese born abroad
- 68: Whether Japanese aliens are worthy or not
- 69: Is the question of assimilability of the Japanese
- 70: In the territories of the other
- 71: Said heir or devisee would take as such
- 72: Providing for escheats in certain cases
- 73: Association or corporation mentioned in section three hereof
- 74: Shall escheat to the State of California
- 75: Evade or avoid escheat as provided for herein
- 76: 739 1895 480 1896 1
- 77: Distribution of japanese population
- 78: A person who has been expatriated loses Japanese nationality
- 79: Are you full of Seattle spirits
- 80: You read the Japanese language now
- 81: Five years old I started to kindergarten
- 82: Among the data the most important
- 83: SHAFER The American born Japanese children
- 84: They are especially good in handwork
- 85: And appreciating your very kindly interest
- 86: Reports of the Immigration Commission
- 87: Stolen Letters of Senator Phelan
- 88: Japanese Problem in California
- 89: Moral Factors in Japanese Policy
- 90: Christianity among Japanese in
- 91: Amount held by Japanese in California
- 92: 15 Sex distribution of Japanese in California
- 93: 54 Bureau of Census Bulletin 127