How is Hawaii connected to Japan?

Hawaii was the first U.S. possession to become a major destination for immigrants from Japan, and it was profoundly transformed by the Japanese presence. In the 1880s, Hawaii was still decades away from becoming a state, and would not officially become a U.S. territory until 1900.



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A subduction zone offshore of Japan consumes the Pacific plate, which is partly melted to create the volcanoes of Japan. If the Plate Tectonic Express operates without change for 63 million years, the Big Island will be headed down the Japanese trench, within hailing distance of Sapporo.

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That Act was made permanent in 1904. To fill the need for cheap labor, several hundred thousand Japanese immigrated to Hawai'i largely as sugar plantation workers and to the mainland as migrant agricultural workers, railroad laborers, fishermen, and miners.

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The Kingdom of Hawaii sought a confederation with the Empire of Japan. In 1881 King Kalakaua of Hawaii undertook a world tour. He had tried to protect the Hawaiian culture, identity and population from extinction at the hands of foreign powers by importing Asian or Pacific labor forces.

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IMMEDIATELY before Hawaii achieved statehood in 1959, it was a Territory of the US. However, it had been a sovereign constitutional monarchy until 1893, when the last Queen, Lili'uokalani, was deposed by a group of American sugar planters and missionaries, with the support of the US marines.

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