Gentlemen’s Agreement
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events from History: North American Series
- Categories: Government and Politics, Diplomacy, International Relations, Foreign Affairs, Economics
- Subcategories: Labor, Unions, Asian Americans, Immigration, Immigrants
- Curriculum: American History 1901-1950, Asian History, Asian American History
- Geographical Location: Japan, United States
- Date: March 14, 1907
Article abstract: Immigration from Japan to the mainland United States is limited to nonlaborers, laborers already settled in the United States, and their families.
Summary of Event
From 1638 to 1854, Japan maintained a policy of isolation toward the world, both to preserve peace, which it had not enjoyed for several hundred years, and to protect its cultural values and feudal institutions from foreign influence. This long period of seclusion changed in 1852, when Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry arrived in Yedo, Japan, to deliver a letter from...
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