Abstract
The first wave of Issei, which included Sue’s father, came to the United States between 1885 and 1924.1 Following the pattern of single young men who left Japan to work on Hawaiian sugar plantations, some moving later to mainland United States,2 Sue’s father, Gonhichi Kunitomi, emigrated from Okayama prefecture in Japan to Hawaii on a passport dated September 14, 1898, on a three-year contract to work as a farm laborer on a Hawaiian plantation.3 The Japanese came to the United States for the same reasons as other immigrants, for economic opportunity. Japanese, however, sought short-term economic gain so they could return home and live with no financial worries.4
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