How Hawaii Became so Japanese

The Chinese plantation workers were the ones marrying the Hawaiian women because the Chinese was going to stay in Hawaii after finishing their work in the sugar plantations and not go back to China so I guess there weren't too many other ethnicities of women to marry and more of Hawaiian women. Japanese men from the sugar plantation, however, planned to go back to Japan to marry a Japanese woman (after their contract to work in the sugar plantation was over). Even today, Japan is a very much closed society with not many foreigners and not much interracial marriages that I see when I go to Japan. So today there are a LOT of mixed Hawaiian Chinese people but hardly any mixed Hawaiian Japanese people in Hawaii. This is what I've been told a long time ago when I asked this question of why there are a lot of Hawaiian Chinese people in Hawaii and rarely a Hawaiian Japanese person. I was born and lived all my life in Hawaii, by the way. 75 years old :-( .

Props on pronouncing Kamehameha correctly!

Fun fact, Hawaii is the only US state with a majority Asian population.

Fun fact: The reason why Japanese living in Hawaii were not interned--despite being even closer to American military installations than Japanese Americans on the mainland--is that Japanese immigrants played a major role in the economy in Hawaii, owning a lion share of the businesses in Hawaii, like grocery stores, restaurants, hardware stores and the like. A professional class was also beginning to emerge. Military leaders predicted that the economy would collapse without the Japanese, who weren't really a threat anyway (just as they weren't a threat on the Mainland) so they did not carry out internment on the Japanese in Hawaii. Another fun fact: those colorful Hawaiian shirts were created by Japanese immigrants who used Kimono designs and printing techniques to make short-sleeve, button-down shirts that could be sold to mostly white tourists. It was basically good marketing more than anything else.

I knew Hawaii had alot of the other island people there. I just had never learned why or how. Very interesting. Thank you. And looking forward to watching everything you put out. It is awesome work and very informative!

because Hawaii thinks Japan is Kawaii

If you’re not against a dark topic, I’d like to suggest making a video about Megumi Yokota

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Wow, I subscribed like literally 2 hours ago while you were at like 890 subs and you've already passed 1000. Great to see you growing.

I am from Crockett, California..it is the C in C&H Sugar

Very interesting!! Tbh i didn't even know this since i don't know shit about Hawaii

King Kamehameha sounds like a very powerful person who has the ability discharge wave of power!

but this is just a theory..... a syphilis theory

What about mr Masenko, or mr special Beam Canon ?

I think it'd be very cool if you made about Zainichi Koreans/Ainu/Okinawans i guess a video about the Non ethnic Japanese people and there relationship with the rest of japan

I was getting in the mood for some history lessons and then I heard kamehameha 😂

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Fun fact the first aloha shirts are believed to have been made from worn out kimonos, brought from Japan by the immigrants.

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not only japanese but chinese as well silly!