ASIAN 422 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Alien Land Laws, Libration, High School Dropouts
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Lots of filipinos were migrant workers, and made this to improve working conditions. Able to help increase wages of 10 times, so successful so they became targeted by ins. Union leaders were threatened to go back to the philippines. Lawyer argued that they could not be deported back because they were nationals, supreme court agreed. Too much money was put into the lawsuits. Wanted japan to become the model for other countries. Wanted the government to pay the people who were interned. Only allowed 137 claims and each person were give . Allowed japan to have quota of 185 (still small) Japanese could get fishing license but there was alien japanese ban for commercial fishing. 1945 - anybody who are aliens could not get a commercial fishing license, those who were not allowed citizenship. 1948 - supreme court put down the law that denied japanese to not have commercial fishing license.
