Barbershops were another service that practically every community with a sizable Oriental population supported. In 1940. more than 500 Japanese barbershops were counted in the United States. Another occupation which followed the rise and fall of Japanese immigration was tailoring. Hannosuke Sawada was the first to open a tailoring shop. located on Mission and Seventh in San Francisco r in 1891. In 1905. there were over 50 tailors busy fitting the shorterstatured Japanese with new westernstyle suits. The n business reached its peak in 1917 at the y height of the picture bride immigration when 126 tailors were in the business. Shoemaking was one of the earliest - industries in westernized Japan. Domis nation by financiers made many skilled workers eager to try their luck outside t the country.
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