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The Japanese Conspiracy - The Oahu Sugar Strike of 1920 (Paperback)
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The Japanese Conspiracy - The Oahu Sugar Strike of 1920 (Paperback)
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In early 1920 in Hawaii, Japanese sugar cane workers, faced with
spiraling living expenses, defiantly struck for a wage increase to
$1.25 per day. The event shook the traditional power structure in
Hawaii and, as Masayo Duus demonstrates in this book, had
consequences reaching all the way up to the eve of World War II.
By the end of World War I, the Hawaiian Islands had become what a
Japanese guidebook called a "Japanese village in the Pacific," with
Japanese immigrant workers making up nearly half the work force on
the Hawaiian sugar plantations. Although the strikers eventually
capitulated, the Hawaiian territorial government, working closely
with the planters, cracked down on the strike leaders, bringing
them to trial for an alleged conspiracy to dynamite the house of a
plantation official. And to end dependence on Japanese immigrant
labor, the planters lobbied hard in Washington to lift restrictions
on the immigration of Chinese workers. Placing the event in the
context of immigration history as well as diplomatic history, Duus
argues that the clash between the immigrant Japanese workers and
the Hawaiian oligarchs deepened the mutual suspicion between the
Japanese and United States governments. Eventually, she
demonstrates, this suspicion led to the passage of the so-called
Japanese Exclusion Act of 1924, an event that cast a long shadow
into the future.
Drawing on both Japanese- and English-language materials, including
important unpublished trial documents, this richly detailed
narrative focuses on the key actors in the strike. Its dramatic
conclusions will have broad implications for further research in
Asian American studies, labor history, and immigration history.
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