Japan used to be an ally of Britain and America, but the united

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Japan used to be an ally of Britain and America, but the united states continuous humiliations and rejection of the japanese people led to the alienation of Japan from the other Great Powers and increased nationalism leading up to World War II.


- The Naturalization Act of 1790 restricted naturalized U.S. citizenship to "free white persons", which excluded the japanese immigrants from citizenship. As a result, the japanes americans were unable to vote and faced additional restrictions such as the inability to own land under many state laws.
- 1906: The San Francisco Board of Education successfully implements segregation for Asian students in public schools
- 1907: Gentlemen's Agreement of 1907 between United States and Japan results in Japan ending the issuance passports for new laborers.
- 1913: The California Alien Land Law of 1913 bans Japanese from purchasing land; whites threatened by Japanese success in independent farming ventures.
- 1919 at the Paris Peace Conference, Japan proposed the "RACIAL EQUALTY CLAUSE" in the Covenant of the League of Nations. It did not become part of the Treaty of Versailles, largely because of the opposition of Australia and the United States.
- 1924: The federal Immigration Act of 1924 banned immigration from Japan.
Significant Japanese immigration did not occur again until the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 ended 40 years of bans against immigration from Japan and other countries.