Subtitled: An Investigation For the Commission on Relations with Japan Appointed by the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. 1915.
One of the interesting things that this book does is that it breaks up each chapter into sections, then has the general title of each section in dark print. It's almost like having each chapter outlined already.
It starts off talking about immigration of Japanese, and then gets into the San Francisco school problem.
The book talks about Japanese laborers and how they did good work and didn't really displace other works. Some others were displaced, but these were men that didn't stay around anyhow, not liking the wages that were being paid. It then goes into a long section about what kinds of jobs that the immigrants held, and how they did on those jobs.
One of the anti-Japanese statements was that the Japanese were ruining the stores of white people. The author points out that this was due to a change in the population of the area.
One of the specific complaints was about Japanese laundries, which led to the Anti-Japanese Laundry League.
The next thing the book gets into is Japanese in agriculture. A lot of the material in this section (and in the other sections) gets into what is almost minute detail.
One charge made against the Japanese was that they were not good tenants, and this is the author's reply.
Another charge was that they did not follow contracts. The author points out that the early contracts were sometimes not really understood by the Japanese.
Next, there's a long section on Florin. The author talks about some other specific areas, and notes that the anti-Japanese feeling is not very strong in Southern California. The section that follows deals with the alien land legislation.
Then the author goes into legislation that discriminates against the Japanese.
Then the author lists positive traits of the Japanese, including:
1. They have merit.
2. They are well educated.
3. They are eager to learn English.
4. They have a high standard of personal cleanliness.
5. They are generous in their relations with others.
6. They are generally temperate.
7. They have fought “the evil of prostitution.”
8. They are law-abiding.
9. They present no problem of dependency.
From the constitution of the Asiatic Exclusion League.
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Intermarriage, and the author's conclusions about things.
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