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Alien Land Laws
Alien land laws were a series of legislative attempts to discourage Asian and other "non-desirable" immigrants from settling permanently in U.S. states and territories by limiting their ability to own land and property. Because the Naturalization Act of 1870 had extended citizenship rights only to African Americans but not other ethnic groups, these laws relied on coded language excluding "aliens ineligible for citizenship" to prohibit primarily Chinese and Japanese immigrants from becoming landowners without explicitly naming any racial group.Lyon, Cherstin M"Alien land laws"''Densho Encyclopedia''. Retrieved 08 July 2014. Various alien land laws existed in over a dozen states before they were ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 1952. Like other discriminatory measures aimed at preventing minorities from establishing homes and businesses in certain areas, such as redlining and restrictive covenants, many alien land laws remained technically in effect, forgotten or ignored ...
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Naturalization Act Of 1870
The Naturalization Act of 1870 () was a United States federal law that created a system of controls for the naturalization process and penalties for fraudulent practices. It is also noted for extending the naturalization process to "aliens of African nativity and to persons of African descent" while also maintaining exclusion of the process to naturalized Chinese Americans and other groups. Wong Kim Ark case By virtue of the Fourteenth Amendment and despite the 1870 Act, the Supreme Court in ''United States v. Wong Kim Ark'' (1898) recognized U.S. birthright citizenship of an American-born child of Chinese parents who had a permanent domicile and residence in the United States, and who were there carrying on business, and were not employed in any diplomatic or official capacity under the Emperor of China.United States v. Wong Kim Ark< ...
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Issei
is a Japanese-language term used by ethnic Japanese in countries in North America and South America to specify the Japanese people who were the first generation to immigrate there. are born in Japan; their children born in the new country are (, "two", plus , "generation"); and their grandchildren are (, "three", plus , "generation"). The character and uniqueness of the is recognized in their social history. History The earliest organized group of Japanese emigrants settled in Mexico in 1897.Ministry of Foreign Affairs ''Japan-Mexico Foreign Relations''/ref> In the 21st century, the four largest populations of diaspora Japanese and descendants of Japanese immigrants in the Western Hemisphere live in Brazil, the United States, Canada, and Peru. Brazilian Brazil is home to the largest ethnic Japanese population outside Japan, numbering an estimated more than 1.5 million (including those of mixed-race or mixed-ethnicity), more than that of the 1.2 million in the ...
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Takahashi V
is the third most common Japanese surname. Less common variants include , , , , , , , and . Notable people with the surname include: * Aaron Takahashi, American actor * , Japanese singer and actress * , Japanese kickboxer * , Japanese classical pianist * , Japanese art historian * , Japanese baseball player * , Japanese voice actress * , Japanese badminton player * , Japanese astronomer * , Japanese badminton player * Ayuo Takahashi (born 1960), Japanese-American musician * , Japanese film director * Belinda Takahashi, professor and creator of the Juno Baby product line * Bo Takahashi (born 1997), Brazilian baseball player * Bruna Takahashi (born 2000), Brazilian table tennis player * , Japanese voice actress * , Japanese politician * , Japanese long-distance runner * Chiyoko Takahashi (1912–1994), American lawyer * , Japanese politician * , Japanese footballer * Daiji Takahashi (born 1977), Japanese mixed martial artist * , Japanese figure skater * , Japanese footballer * Da ...
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Escheat
Escheat is a common law doctrine that transfers the real property of a person who has died without heirs to the crown or state. It serves to ensure that property is not left in "limbo" without recognized ownership. It originally applied to a number of situations where a legal interest in land was destroyed by operation of law, so that the ownership of the land reverted to the immediately superior feudal lord. Etymology The term "escheat" derives ultimately from the Latin ''ex-cadere'', to "fall-out", via mediaeval French ''escheoir''. The sense is of a feudal estate in land falling-out of the possession by a tenant into the possession of the lord. Origins in feudalism In feudal England, escheat referred to the situation where the tenant of a fee (or "fief") died without an heir or committed a felony. In the case of such demise of a tenant-in-chief, the fee reverted to the King's demesne permanently, when it became once again a mere tenantless plot of land, but could be re-c ...
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Oyama V
Oyama, Ōyama or Ohyama may refer to: * Oyama, Tochigi ( ja, 小山市, link=no), a city in Japan * Ōyama, Ōita ( ja, 大山町, link=no), a town in Japan * Oyama, Shizuoka ( ja, 小山町, link=no), a town in Japan * Mount Ōyama (Kanagawa) ( ja, 大山, link=no), a mountain in Japan * Oyama (Japanese theatre) ( ja, 女形, link=no), also known as ''onnagata'' ( ja, 女形/女方, link=no), a male actor who plays female parts in Kabuki * Oyama, British Columbia, a town in Lake Country, British Columbia, Canada People with the surname *Anza Ohyama (born 1976), Japanese singer and actress *Heiichiro Ohyama, Japanese conductor and violinist *Kana Oyama (born 1984) ( ja, 大山 加奈, link=no), Japanese volleyball player *Ōyama Iwao ( ja, 大山 巌, link=no), Japanese field marshal * Oyama Susumu (born 1952), Japanese sumo wrestler *Mas Oyama ( ja, 大山 倍達, link=no), karate master *, Japanese speed skater *, Japanese karateka *Shungo Oyama ( ja, 大山 峻護, link=no), Jap ...
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Terrace V
Terrace may refer to: Landforms and construction * Fluvial terrace, a natural, flat surface that borders and lies above the floodplain of a stream or river * Terrace, a street suffix * Terrace, the portion of a lot between the public sidewalk and the street * Terrace (earthworks), a leveled surface built into the landscape for agriculture or salt production * Terrace (building), a raised flat platform * Terrace garden, an element where a raised flat paved or gravelled section overlooks a prospect * Terrace (geology), a step-like landform that borders a shoreline or river floodplain * Terraced house, a style of housing where identical individual houses are cojoined into rows * Terrace, the roof of a building, especially one accessible to the residents for various purposes * Terrace, a sidewalk cafe * Terrace (stadium), standing spectator areas, especially in Europe and South America, or the sloping portion of the outfield in a baseball stadium, not necessarily for seating, but for ...
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Takao Ozawa V
Takao may refer to: Geography * Mount Takao, a mountain in Tokyo, Japan * Mount Takao, a mountain in Kyoto, Japan, location of the Jingo-ji temple * Kaohsiung, a municipality in Taiwan * Takao Prefecture, an administrative division of Taiwan during the Japanese rule Ships Other uses * Takao (name), Japanese given name and surname (including a list of people with the name) * Takao, the given name of the character Tyson Granger in the original Japanese version of the ''Beyblade'' manga series * Takao (wrestler), is a Canadian professional wrestler See also * Takao Station (other) * 高雄 (other) 高雄 may refer to: * Kaohsiung, a city in Taiwan * Kaohsiung County, a former county in Taiwan * Port of Kaohsiung * Kaohsiung metropolitan area * Takao Prefecture, a prefecture of Taiwan during the Japanese era * Takao, a place within Ukyō-k ...
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Harada House
The Harada House ( ja, ハラダハウス, ''Harada Hausu'') is a historic house in Riverside, California. The house was the focus of a critical application of the California Alien Land Law of 1913, which prevented foreigners who were ineligible for citizenship from owning property. The state of California attempted to seize the property from the family in ''California v. Harada'', but the Haradas ultimately won the case and retained ownership of the house. The house, created in 1884 and built upon by the Harada family, was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1990 and   and is currently overseen by the Museum of Riverside. Description The Harada House is located near downtown Riverside, on the east side of Lemon Street between 3rd and 4th Streets. The house was built in 1884 as a single-story saltbox cottage with recessed shiplap wood siding and a wood shingle roof. The Haradas made a large improvement to the property in 1916 with the addition of a second story, compl ...
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Takuji Yamashita
was a Japanese civil rights activist. In spite of social and legal barriers, he directly challenged three major barriers against Asians in the United States: citizenship, joining a profession, and owning land. Biography Yamashita was born in Yawatahama, Ehime, Shikoku, Japan. He immigrated to the United States in the 1890s and, aided by a photographic memory, graduated from Tacoma High School in two years before entering University of Washington law school's second graduating class. Yamashita graduated with a law degree from the University of Washington in 1902 and passed the state bar exam with distinction. The Washington State Supreme Court, in processing his bar application, issued an order expressing "doubt whether a native of Japan is entitled under naturalization laws to admission to citizenship." Yamashita appealed the order, representing himself before the Washington Supreme Court. Despite Yamashita's 28-page brief having been described as being of "solid professional qua ...
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Yamashita V
Yamashita (written: lit. "under the mountain") is the 29th most common Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Akihiko Yamashita (born 1966), Japanese animator * Ayaka Yamashita (other), multiple people * Bruce Yamashita, U.S. military lawyer *, Japanese handball player *Yamashita Gentarō (Gentarō Yamashita) (1863–1931), Japanese admiral *Gota Yamashita (born 1989), Japanese mixed martial artist *Haruhiro Yamashita (born 1938), Japanese gymnast *, Japanese model and beauty pageant winner *, Japanese ice hockey player *Hiroko Yamashita (other), multiple people *Iris Yamashita, U.S. screenwriter *, Japanese sprinter *Karen Tei Yamashita (born 1951), Japanese-American writer *Keigo Yamashita (born 1978), Japanese Go player *Kazuhito Yamashita (born 1961), Japanese classical guitarist *Kinuyo Yamashita, Japanese composer *Kumi Yamashita (born 1968), artist *Kyle Yamashita (born 1959), American politician * Maki Yamashita (born 1974), Japanese p ...
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Internment Of Japanese Americans
Internment is the imprisonment of people, commonly in large groups, without charges or intent to file charges. The term is especially used for the confinement "of enemy citizens in wartime or of terrorism suspects". Thus, while it can simply mean imprisonment, it tends to refer to preventive confinement rather than confinement ''after'' having been convicted of some crime. Use of these terms is subject to debate and political sensitivities. The word ''internment'' is also occasionally used to describe a neutral country's practice of detaining belligerent armed forces and equipment on its territory during times of war, under the Hague Convention of 1907. Interned persons may be held in prisons or in facilities known as internment camps (also known as concentration camps). The term ''concentration camp'' originates from the Spanish–Cuban Ten Years' War when Spanish forces detained Cuban civilians in camps in order to more easily combat guerrilla forces. Over the following d ...
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Heart Mountain Relocation Center
The Heart Mountain War Relocation Center, named after nearby Heart Mountain and located midway between the northwest Wyoming towns of Cody and Powell, was one of ten concentration camps used for the internment of Japanese Americans evicted during World War II from their local communities (including their homes, businesses, and college residencies) in the West Coast Exclusion Zone by the executive order of President Franklin Roosevelt (after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941, upon the recommendation of Lieutenant General John L. DeWitt). This site was managed before the war by the federal Bureau of Reclamation as the would-be site of a major irrigation project. Construction of the camp's 650 military-style barracks and surrounding guard towers began in June 1942. The camp opened August 11, when the first Japanese Americans were shipped in by train from the internment program’s " assembly centers" in Pomona, Santa Anita, and Portland. The camp would hold a total ...
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