Theodore Roosevelt and American Involvement in the Far East, 1901-1909

Neu, Charles E.

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“…But it was an explicit display of power, despite Roosevelt's behind-thescenes assurances to the Japanese that the cruise was not an aggressive act. 16 Historian Thomas Bailey wrote that Roosevelt wanted to preserve amity between the 2 countries, yet show the Meiji, in TR's words, "that the United States will no more submit to bullying than it will bully." 15 The fleet made ports of call up the west coast of South America and Mexico before crossing the Pacific by way of Honolulu.…”

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Japanese Immigration in America: Fleeing Riots, Escaping Imprisonment, and Assimilating

Nakayama

2024

The American Surgeon™

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When 13-year-old Teruichi Nakayama, my grandfather, came to San Francisco from Osaka in 1906, he was assured of an education in a public school by an 1894 treaty between the United States and Japan that gave the latter most-favored-nation status. In 1906, racist mobs forced a decision by the school board to assign 41 school aged Japanese children, including him, to a segregated school for Asian children in violation of the pact. In 1907, he escaped street violence to work as a migrant laborer on inland farms. Settling in the state’s Central Coast, he started a confectionary, the family business he knew from his childhood in Japan. He eked enough money to raise a family with a wife arranged for him in the traditional manner by a go-between in Japan. The school board action opened a diplomatic rift between the 2 countries that never resolved and ended in war in 1941. Just days ahead of the imprisonment of Japanese living in California in 1942, he and his family fled to Colorado, a sanctuary state where he reestablished the confectionery. He faced every misapprehension of the current immigration crisis: racism, unfair labor competition, the impossibility of assimilation, and suspicion of a fifth column. Now 5 generations later, none of the fearful predictions when he first arrived came true. His legacy proves immigration as an essential rejuvenating force in America.

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confidence: 99%