Gentleman's Agreement
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 4 Oct
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Informal 1907 agreement limiting Japanese labor immigration to the U.S.
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newest first · ▶ plays the momentJosh ClarkStuff You Should Know · Selects: How Mail Order Marriages Work · 27:15 · 4 Oct
…There was a loophole for Japan with the 1907 Gentleman's Agreement, which basically said if you –…
Kristen HayashiAmerican History Hit · Japanese in America · 9:29 · Dec 2024
…And so there was a lot of lobbying of elected officials to try to restrict immigration as a way to sort of, you know, counter this threat that these Japanese immigrant laborers were posing. And so in 1907, the U.S. and Japan, they... They signed the gentleman's agreement, which essentially says that Japan agrees to no longer send laborers to the United Stat…
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