Week Thirteen Lecture
Outlines
Lecture 21: Japanese Migration
to the U.S., 1868-1924
- Japan on Eve of Migration
- Feudal heritage of Tokugawa
Shogunate
- Decline of feudal obligations--Meiji
Restoration
- Population Increase
- Rural-urban Migration
- New Economic Vulnerability
- Japanese Migration
- Hawaii
- Plantation economy
- Geographic and social
origins of migrants
- Mainland
- Governmental interest
in Japanese abroad
- Japan as world power
in period
- Relative male-female
balance
- Japanese in California
- Economic Place
- Ethnic Organizations
- Nativism Toward the Japanese
- Exclusion Movement and
Gentlemen's Agreement
- Discriminatory California
laws
- Federal Actions

Lecture 22: Internment During
World War II: Accommodation and Resistance
- The Decision to Intern
- Accommodation
- Nisei and their values
- Changing power balance between
generations
- Resistance to Authority
- Intra-group conflict and
authorities
- The Draft
- Court challenges
Gordon Hirabayashi
Fred Korematsu
Mitsuye Endo
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