The Immigration Act of 1924, pretty much cut off immigration from Asian countries, namely Japan.
The Japanese were angry about this. Up to this point, Japanese-American relations were still pretty good, but the anger over the 1924 Immigration Act started the downturn in US-Japanese Relations that ultimately led to Pearl Harbor.
Hello Mr. Dfwgator🙂,
yes, that’s what I read, too. But I don’t think it was the only factor in the decline of the relationship between DC and Tokyo. But it was a factor.
Still, I had thought that Japanese immigration to the US had been reduced drastically after the Gentlemen’s Agreement of 1907.
Yes, but the number of Japanese in the US continued to grow dramatically, because the agreement stipulated that male Japanese immigrants were now allowed to bring their wives. Needless to say, they all had children therafter, sometimes very numerous…