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Japanese In Texas
Japanese Texans are Japanese Americans living in Texas. History In 1902, the Houston Chamber of Commerce requested help from Japanese Consul General Sadatsuchi Uchida in improving Texas rice production techniques. At least thirty attempts were made by Japanese to grow rice in the state at this time, with two of the most successful colonies being one founded by Seito Saibara in 1903 in Webster, and another by Kichimatsu Kishi in 1907 east of Beaumont. Within three years of Seito's farm being established, area rice harvest nearly doubled. By 1910, the Japanese population was around 300. A second wave of Japanese began arriving in 1920, some moving from California to avoid discrimination there. Although conditions were better than some other states, Japanese families attempting to move to Texas were turned away by a hostile mob in 1921, and the Texas legislature, following the precedent set by the California Alien Land Law of 1913, passed its own law restricting Japanese ownersh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese Americans
are Americans of Japanese ancestry. Japanese Americans were among the three largest Asian American ethnic communities during the 20th century; but, according to the 2000 census, they have declined in number to constitute the sixth largest Asian American group at around 1,469,637, including those of partial ancestry. According to the 2010 census, the largest Japanese American communities were found in California with 272,528, Hawaii with 185,502, New York with 37,780, Washington with 35,008, Illinois with 17,542 and Ohio with 16,995. Southern California has the largest Japanese American population in North America and the city of Gardena holds the densest Japanese American population in the 48 contiguous states. History Immigration People from Japan began migrating to the US in significant numbers following the political, cultural, and social changes stemming from the Meiji Restoration in 1868. These early Issei immigrants came primarily from small towns and rural areas in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenedy, Texas
Kenedy is a city in Karnes County, Texas, Karnes County, Texas, United States, named for Mifflin Kenedy, who bought and wanted to develop a new town that would carry his name. The population was 3,473 at the 2020 census, up from 3,296 at the 2010 census. History In the early 1900s many of Kenedy's gunfighter shootings caused the town to be nicknamed "Six Shooter Junction". During World War II, the Kenedy Allen Detention Camp was located near the outskirts of the town, on a former Civilian Conservation Corps site. Though it later served as a prisoner of war camp, it started as an internment camp for people of German, Italian and Japanese ancestry deported from Latin America, as well as some who were long-term residents of the U.S.Mak, Stephen"Kenedy (detention facility)"''Densho Encyclopedia'' (accessed 17 Jun 2014). The camp opened in April 1942, when the first group of Latin American deportees arrived: 456 Germans, 156 Japanese and 14 Italians. Despite State Department prisoner ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese School Of Dallas
The Japanese School of Dallas (ダラス補習授業校 ''Darasu Hoshū Jugyō Kō'') is a part-time Japanese educational program for Japanese citizens and Japanese Americans located in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. The school office in Dallas, and it conducts its classes at Ted Polk Middle School in Carrollton. As of 2015 Munetake Yamamura (山村 宗武 ''Yamamura Munetake'') is the principal.Toyota's move to North Texas brings more interest in Japanese schooling Wayback Machine Archive of or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
History Of The Japanese In Houston
This article discusses Japanese Americans and Japanese citizens in Houston and Greater Houston. As of the 2010 U.S. Census, there were 3,566 people of Japanese descent in Harris County, making up 1.3% of the Asians in the county. In 1990 there were 3,425 ethnic Japanese in the county, making up 3.1% of the county's Asians, and in 2000 there were 3,574 ethnic Japanese in the county, making up 1.9% of the county's Asians.Klineberg and Wu, p. 12. Patsy Yoon Brown, the director of the Japan-America Society of Houston (JASH, ヒューストン日米協会 ''Hyūsuton Nichibei Kyōkai''), stated in 2013 that the Japanese American community in Houston had about 3,000 people, and that, as paraphrased by Minh Dam of the ''Houston Chronicle'', is "a relatively small number compared to other Asian-American communities in the area".Dam, Minh.Japanese community feeling right at home" ''Houston Chronicle''. April 14, 2013. Updated April 15, 2013. Retrieved on February 17, 2015. Print version: " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Tsutsui
William M. Tsutsui is an American academic, author, economic historian, Japanologist and university administrator.Southern Methodist University (SMU), Administration William Tsutsui, bio notes/ref> He was named President and CEO of Ottawa University, May 3, 2021, and took office July 1, 2021. Early life Tsutsui was born in New York City and grew up in Bryan, Texas. Tsutsui earned his undergraduate degree summa cum laude from Harvard University. In 1985, he was awarded an A.B. degree in East Asian Studies. Tsutsui earned his Ph.D. in history at Princeton University in 1995. In 1988, Oxford University’s Corpus Christi College, where he was a Marshall Scholar, awarded him a Master of Letters in Modern Japanese History. In 1990, Princeton awarded him an M.A. in history. In 1991-1992, he was a visiting research scholar at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo before returning to Princeton to complete his doctoral dissertation. Career Tsutsui served as Dean of Dedman College of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naoko Shibusawa
Naoko Shibusawa is an Associate Professor of History and an Associate Professor of American Studies at Brown University. Biography Shibusawa was born in Japan in 1964. She moved to the United States in her youth, growing up in New York, Texas and California. She received a B.A. in History from U.C. Berkeley in 1987. She received a Northwestern University Graduate Fellowship in 1989, completing an M.A. in History from Northwestern University in 1993. During the pursuit of a Ph.D at Northwestern, Shibusawa received the Center for International and Comparative Studies Graduate Grant and a fellowship from Chicago chapter of the National Association of Japan-America Societies. She received a Ph.D. in History from Northwestern in 1998, with a major focus in American history in the 20th century and a minor focus in Modern Japan from 1850 to the present. After completing her Ph.D., Shibusawa received a position as an assistant professor of history at the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jay Kochi
Jay Kazuo Kochi (高知 和夫, ''Kōchi Kazuo'',1927–2008) was an American physical organometallic chemist who held lectureship at Harvard University, and faculty positions at Case Institute of Technology, 1962-1969, (now Case Western Reserve University), Indiana University, 1969 to 1984, and the University of Houston, 1984 to 2008. Early life and education Kochi was born to Japanese immigrant parents on May 17, 1927, in Los Angeles, California, where he and his family had lived until he and his family were imprisoned at the Gila River War Relocation Center in 1942 just after the United States entered the Second World War and Executive Order 9066 was signed. After the war, Kochi and his family returned to California and Kochi later attended UCLA. Kochi received his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1949 and his Ph.D. at Iowa State University in 1952 with George S. Hammond and Henry Gilman as advisors. He then spent short stints at H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riki Kobayashi
Riki Kobayashi (1924–2013) was a chemical engineer and a long-time professor of chemical engineering at Rice University. A native of Harris County, Texas, he attended Rice University (then known as Rice Institute) and earned the Bachelor of Science in chemical engineering at the age of 19. After serving in the U.S. Army, he went to the University of Michigan, where he earned the Master of Science degree in 1946 and the Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1951, both in chemical engineering. He became a member of the Rice faculty in 1951 and remained there until he retired in 1994. He died July 19, 2013, in Houston, Texas."Rice mourns the death of Riki Kobayashi." Rice University: George R. Brown School of Engineering." July 22, 2013. Retrieved November 28, 2014. Professional career Kobay ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ishiyama
John T. Ishiyama is an American political scientist. He is a University Distinguished Research Professor of Political Science and the Piper Professor of Texas at the University of North Texas. He studies comparative politics, particularly the party structure and democratization of Post-Soviet states, as well as the politics of Ethiopia. He is currently the President of the American Political Science Association. Education and early work Ishiyama grew up in Parma, Ohio. He has credited his decision to become a political scientist with an early interest in how things change and evolve. Ishiyama attended Bowling Green State University, graduating with a BA in political science and history in 1982. He then pursued an MA at the University of Michigan's Center for Russian and East European Studies, graduating in 1985. In 1992, Ishiyama earned a PhD in political science from Michigan State University. In 1990, Ishiyama joined the political science faculty at Truman State University, whe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conan Gray
Conan Lee Gray (born December 5, 1998) is an American singer and songwriter. Born in Lemon Grove, California and raised in Georgetown, Texas, he began uploading vlogs, Cover version, covers and original songs to YouTube as a teenager. Gray signed a record deal with Republic Records in 2018, where he released his debut EP ''Sunset Season'' (2018). Bolstered by the commercially successful singles "Maniac (Conan Gray song), Maniac" and "Heather (Conan Gray song), Heather", his debut studio album ''Kid Krow'' (2020) debuted at number five on the US Billboard 200, ''Billboard'' 200, making it the biggest US new artist debut of the year. His second studio album, ''Superache'' (2022), received critical acclaim and debuted within the top 10 in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Ireland and the Netherlands. Early life Conan Lee Gray was born on December 5, 1998, in Lemon Grove, California, to a father of mostly Irish ancestry and a Japanese mother. As an infant, his famil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Fujita
Frank Fujita (October 20, 1921 – December 11, 1996) was a Japanese American soldier of the US Army who, during his service in World War II became one of only two Japanese American combat personnel (the other being Richard Sakakida) to be captured by the Japanese. Part of the 2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery of the 36th Infantry Division (which was later known as the " Lost Battalion"), Texas National Guard, he was captured during the Battle of Java when the Dutch surrendered. A prisoner held in Japan for three and a half years, Fujita later published a memoir of his experience, ''Foo: A Japanese-American Prisoner of the Rising Sun''. His work, along with those of John David Provoo and W. F. Matthews, fellow "Lost Battalion" prisoners of war, has served as a useful historical reference for the experience of American prisoners of war held in Japan. Biography Early years Fujita's father was born in a village near Nagasaki, Japan, and after learning English while at school he w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Texas At Austin
The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public research university in Austin, Texas. It was founded in 1883 and is the oldest institution in the University of Texas System. With 40,916 undergraduate students, 11,075 graduate students and 3,133 teaching faculty as of Fall 2021, it is also the largest institution in the system. It is ranked among the top universities in the world by major college and university rankings, and admission to its programs is considered highly selective. UT Austin is considered one of the United States's Public Ivies. The university is a major center for academic research, with research expenditures totaling $679.8 million for fiscal year 2018. It joined the Association of American Universities in 1929. The university houses seven museums and seventeen libraries, including the LBJ Presidential Library and the Blanton Museum of Art, and operates various auxiliary research facilities, such as the J. J. Pickle Research Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
