The Senator from Michigan will not stand on this floor and say that he would advocate the appointment of a Japanese resident citizen of the United States as the Governor of the Hawaiian Islands. If he will advocate such a thing. I will give him a chance to do so now. for fear I have misconstrued his thought. The third largest division is that of the Chinese. who have 27.313. The Japanese and the Chinese together make up nearly one half of the total population of the Hawaiian Islands. The rest of the population is scattered through the following: Asiatic Hawaiian. Portuguese. Puerto Rican.