Pasadena. and Los Angeles. From 1892 on. an increasing number of Japanese came to the United States from Hawaii. An immigration treaty had been signed by Hawaii and Japan in 1884 to provide labor to the sugar industry after the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed the year before. The first group of 956 workers. recruited mainly from the prefectures of Hiroshima. Yamaguchi. Kumamoto. and Niigata. came to Hawaii in 1885. In a few years. they were sending 2 million yen back to Japan annually. Between 1893 and 1900. immigration contracting companies sent 40.208 workers to Hawaii. The process came to a halt when Hawaii became a territory of the United States. The bubonic plague epidemic which swept through Hawaii at the time also alarmed both the Japanese Government and the United States. Labor shortages soon persuaded Hawaii to ask for more Japanese immigrants. who were sent 60 at a time in 1901. From 1901 to 1905. 36.493 Japanese emigrated to Hawaii. From 1906. 1.000 a month were allowed to leave Japan. From 1902 on. many of them reemigrated to the U.S. mainland.
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