... ones who left Japan in search for a life of happiness and prosperity. A surge of downtrodden economic hardships heavily contributed to the steady influx of Japanese migrates. In order to support newly adopted techniques in Western industrialization, the Japanese government in 1873 raised land taxes, creating heavy burdens on farmers throughout the country.1 Unlike their European counterparts who were lured to America by promoters, most Japanese emigrants left their country to improve their economic state of being. Many had heard that America was a land of opportunity where wages were lofty and jobs were plentiful. Young men could set off to America, find work, and save enough money in hopes for a return home with an improved financial state. With passports in hand many young men, wives, and children undertook the long and expensive pilgrimage across the Pacific and into the United States. On December 7, 1941, Japanese planes ...

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