PART III.

Geographical Distribution of Japanese
Immigration

The regular American ports of entry for Japanese have been
and still are San Francisco, Seattle and Portland, Oregon. But
Seattle did not begin to receive Japanese regularly till about
1890, though a few sailors made appearance there as early as in

1879. Neither did Portland receive them till 1895, although it
saw the immigration of 200 Japanese in 1887. Most Japanese
immigrants entered through the port of San Francisco. Natur-
ally, therefore, Japanese resided in and about this port city from
which they radiated as time advanced. In 1890, according to the
census, the 2,039 Japanese were distributed as follows:

! District Number.
TC nn encecbuensnttnn 247
te ane chorea sir tech 55
cw nie ncn iem ecnesemichcna spe ccerenccnasue 117
I a cceetmnenacneemnsnanonenton 61
een ee 1,559
t
_ Again, in 1900 and 1910 as follows:
| 1900 1910
| District Number. Number.
TE 89 286
Maddie Atlantic States .......................2.....00..c 446 1,609
MPEPTAMTITAC SSCALCS, «.-..2.-<<-pc--sa0c02npeceanccscceencneoene 29 150
IIMOOGHEPAL SLALCS ............-...---—---20-c0-cne-nconeeeeee 126 455
SE 7 23
INO CMEPAl StALES ........—......--2.------..--200-00teense 223 966
Sees. Central States ...................-...--.....---.-ccs-0 30 426
PME PRUNES ETUC ocean cence 5,107 10,209
I eee reece eee 18,269 57,628

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Thus we note the gradual eastward migration of Japanese
-mmigrants. Still by far the majority of them are yet confined
0 the western states, California containing the largest number.
_n 1910 the Japanese population in California was estimated at
_'9,000, made up approximately of 45,000 males, 6,000 females,

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