Hawaii is the youngest state in the United States, it was annexed by the United States in 1898, and by 1959 it was voted to officially become the fiftieth state of the United States, more than 3,000 kilometers away from the United States mainland. Because Japan has emigrated here many times in history, the number of Japanese in Hawaii is second only to European and American immigrants today.
Polynesians have been rowing canoes to Hawaii more than a thousand years ago, so in the beginning, there were only Polynesians on the island, who were the main inhabitants of the island.
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In 1778, a Navigator in England named James Cook discovered the Hawaiian Islands. Because of its geographical importance, Hawaii has become a place where passing ships dock for supplies. Later, a large number of Europeans and Americans began to immigrate to Hawaii.
It was Britain and France that first infiltrated here, but neither country had the strength to annex it. Later, the Hawaiian chief Kamehameha unified Hawaii, and Kamehameha became the king of Hawaii, and called himself Kamehameha I, guaranteeing hawaii's sovereignty.
In 1840, the Hawaiian royal family amended the constitution from the original kingdom system to a constitutional monarchy. However, britain did not care about the sovereignty of Hawaii, and insisted that Hawaii was owned by Britain, and then France also declared that it owned part of the sovereignty of Hawaii.
Seeing that Britain and France were thinking of annexing themselves, the Hawaiians were very dissatisfied. It was at this time that the United States recognized Hawaii as a sovereign state, and this behavior of the United States helped them win the favor of the Kingdom of Hawaii. Subsequently, Americans also began to immigrate to Hawaii in large numbers.
The influx of European and American immigrants has brought a very serious blow to the native residents of Hawaii, that is, the spread of infectious diseases. According to relevant statistics, in the 1830s, there were about 130,000 native residents in Hawaii, but by the 1960s, there were still 60,000 native residents left. After this, the majority of Hawaii's population became European and American.
In the 1850s, the King of Hawaii issued a decree that allowed immigrants to acquire Hawaiian citizenship and purchase land and property. This has led to more and more Americans with gold panning dreams coming to Hawaii. Nearly 80% of Hawaii's land is inhabited by foreigners, and what scares the Hawaiian government even more is that european and American immigrants have infiltrated the country's management and are eager to control Hawaii's future.
Recognizing the seriousness of the problem, the Hawaiian government, in order to offset the impact of American immigrants on the country, set its sights on a country on the west coast of the Pacific, Japan.
In 1865, the Hawaiian government negotiated with the Japanese government to send some Japanese immigrants to Hawaii. In the second year, the first Japanese emigrated to the past, and the first japanese emigrated to the past, and then most of the immigrants were about a thousand, and sometimes more.
Such a move caused dissatisfaction in the United States, and in 1893, the United States directly imprisoned Queen Liliucarani of Hawaii and established the Republic of Hawaii. Japan was very nervous about this, after all, there were many Japanese immigrants in Hawaii, so Japan had also sent warships to Hawaii. However, because at that time, Japan's main energy was focused on brewing the Sino-Japanese War, there was no way to withdraw. In 1898, the United States annexed Hawaii.
Later, when the population was counted, it was recorded that the proportion of Japanese people at that time reached 40 percent, which was more than the local indigenous population. Although the proportion of Japanese living in Hawaii declined after World War II, until now, the Japanese are the second largest ethnic group in the region after Europeans and Americans.