By 1905, Japanese Americans lived not only in Chinatown but throughout San Francisco, while anti-Japanese rhetoric was common in the Chronicle newspaper.

In 1906, the San Francisco Board of Education passed a regulation whereby children of Japanese descent would be required to attend separate, segregated schools.

For decades, policies segregated Japanese schools, but they were not enforced as long as there was room and white parents did not complain.

The Japanese and Korean Exclusion League appeared before the school board multiple times to complain.

The school board dismissed its claims because it was fiscally infeasible to create new facilities to accommodate only 93 students.

Victor Metcalf, Secretary of Commerce and Labor, was sent to investigate the issue and to force the rescission of the policies.

The Japanese government agreed to stop granting passports to laborers who were trying to enter the United States unless such laborers were coming to occupy a formerly-acquired home; to join a parent, spouse, or child; or to assume active control of a previously acquired farming enterprise.

The adoption of the 1907 Agreement spurred the arrival of "picture brides," marriages of convenience made at a distance through photographs.

[11] Because of that provision, which helped close the gender gap within the community from a ratio of 7 men to every woman in 1910 to less than 2 to 1 by 1920, the Japanese American population continued to grow despite the Agreement's limits on immigration.