[DOC] [TLE] Issei - Wikipedia [PAR] Issei (, "first generation") is a Japanese language term used in countries in 
North America and South America to specify the Japanese people who were first 
to immigrate. Issei are born in Japan, their children born in the new country are 
referred to ... Brazil is home to the largest Japanese population outside Japan, 
numbering... [DOC] [TLE] Japanese Americans - Wikipedia [PAR] Japanese Americans are Americans who are fully or partially of Japanese 
descent, especially ... People from Japan began migrating to the US in significant 
numbers ... The Issei comprised exclusively those who had immigrated before 
1924. .... are fondly known as "Nichigo" in Japanese American Christian 
communities. [DOC] [TLE] Japanese Americans facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com ... [PAR] A country slightly larger than the United Kingdom (about the size of California), .... 
Once back home, 39 of them signed a public statement charging the planters with 
... Over 46,000 Japanese immigrants, including many elderly Issei, became ... In 
1960, 52 percent of the Asian American population were Japanese American. [DOC] [TLE] Japanese American internment | United States history | Britannica.com [PAR] Aug 9, 2016 ... Japanese American internment, the forced relocation by the U.S. government ... 
that had begun with restrictive immigration policies in the late 1800s. ... Some 
were first-generation Japanese Americans, known as Issei, who .... With the end 
of internment, Japanese Americans moved back to their homes and... [DOC] [TLE] Historical Overview: Japanese Americans [PAR] Railroads in particular recruited Issei or first generation immigrants--from Hawaii 
and Japan. ... Similar migrations to Idaho increased the Japanese population in 
the state to ... Tensions led to the so-called Gentleman's Agreement between 
the U.S. .... As a result of their internment, Japanese Americans lost homes, jobs,
... [DOC] [TLE] THE WAR . At Home . Civil Rights . Japanese Americans | PBS [PAR] The War At Home At War The Witnesses Search & Explore ... in Washington for 
the wholesale internment of all 158,000 people of Japanese descent living in 
Hawaii,too ... But the American-born descendants of Japanese immigrants  
called Nisei  were citizens by ... And we don't want them back when the war 
ends, either. [DOC] [TLE] A | More | Perfect | Union - National Museum of American History [PAR] 'All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the ... Issei 
owned homes, businesses, and farms, all held in the names of their ... In 1907 
Congress forbade the immigration of Japanese from Hawaii to the U.S. mainland. 
... Under the so-called Gentlemen's Agreement of 1907-08, Japan agreed to 
restrict... [DOC] [TLE] Japanese Relocation During World War II | National Archives [PAR] Prior to Pearl Harbor, the United States had been involved in the European war ... 
The Issei were the first generation of Japanese in this country; the Nisei were the 
... While some persons of Japanese ancestry returned to their home towns,... [DOC] [TLE] A Brief History of Japanese American Relocation During World War II [PAR] Yet these innocent people were removed from their homes and placed in 
relocation centers ... a Chinese immigration exclusion bill passed in 1882 by the 
U.S. Congress. ... Japanese immigrants were called Issei, from the combination 
of the ..... many refugees were turned back at state borders, had difficulty buying 
gasoline,... [DOC] [TLE] Japanese American Internment During World War II - UMBC [PAR] order the nation was reeling from the attack on Pearl Harbor and citizens, ... 
Standard 3: The causes and course of World War II, the character of the war at 
home and ... Americans and Asian immigrants more generally, dating back to the 
late ... Americans to hate the Japanese as a people, rather than to simply desire 
the... [DOC] [TLE] Japanese-Americans: life after the war and internment | The Japan ... [PAR] Aug 19, 2012 ... AFTER CAMP: Portraits in Midcentury Japanese American Life and Politics, by 
Greg Robinson. ... of Japanese ancestry were removed from their homes and 
dispatched ... Pre-1924 immigrants were known as Issei (first-generation

Question: People who emigrate to America from this country are known as Issei back home
Answer: Japan