Japanese people in San Francisco

However, in the years that followed Commodore Matthew C Perry's 1854 arrival, Japan underwent a great social transformation, and for many Japanese, the U.S. became a model for military power and a desirable way of life.

As Japanese wages decreased, and word of a booming U.S. economy spread, the lure of the United States became difficult to resist.

[3] Asian American Studies professor Yuji Ichioka estimated that there around 300 Japanese "school boys"—immigrants who are working to earn their education in the United States—living in San Francisco in 1885.

[4] Following the San Francisco Earthquake in 1906, the Japanese community relocated to the city's present day Japantown in the Western Addition, and also the South Park neighborhood.

[2] After the earthquake, the San Francisco Board of Education passed a regulation requiring that Japanese American students attend separate, racially specific schools.

[5] San Jose's Japantown was founded due to the need of combining comradeship and resources to survive as immigrants in the United States.

[incomprehensible] However, John Heinlen offered his own property for the new location after the city's second Chinatown burned to the ground under mysterious circumstances.

Among his clients were Fred Korematsu, Iva Toguri D'Aquino, and Japanese American renunciants from the Tule Lake War Relocation Center.

The Japanese population of the South Bay is diverse, and many have mixed-race backgrounds due to the growing trend of inter-racial marriages.