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37 - Outline History of Japan by Herbert Henry Gowen · Outline History of Japan

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  Speaker 1: Appendix five of An Outlying History of Japan. This is
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  Speaker 1: Read by Victor Dwarf. An Outline History of Japan by
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  Speaker 1: Herbert Henry Gowan, Appendix five. The Gentleman's Agreement. In order
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  Speaker 1: that the best results might follow from an enforcement of
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  Speaker 1: the regulations, an understanding was reached with Japan that the
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  Speaker 1: existing policy of discouraging emigration of its subjects of the
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  Speaker 1: laboring classes to continental United States should be continued, and should,
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  Speaker 1: by cooperation of the governments, be made as effective as possible.
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  Speaker 1: This understanding contemplates that the Japanese government shall issue passports
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  Speaker 1: to continental United States only to such of its subjects
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  Speaker 1: as are non lilaborers, or are laborers who, in coming
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  Speaker 1: to the continent, seek to resume a formally acquired domicile,
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  Speaker 1: to join a parent, wife or children residing there, or
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  Speaker 1: to assume active control of an already possessed interest in
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  Speaker 1: a farming enterprise in this country. So that the three
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  Speaker 1: classes of laborers entitled to receive passports have come to
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  Speaker 1: be designated former residents, parents, wives or children of residents,
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  Speaker 1: and settled agriculturists. With respect to Hawaii, the Japanese government
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  Speaker 1: of its own volition stated that experimentally, at least the
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  Speaker 1: issuance of passports to members of the laboring classes proceeding
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  Speaker 1: thence would be limited to former residents and parents, wives
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  Speaker 1: or children of residents. The said government has also been
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  Speaker 1: exercising a careful supervision over the subject of emigration of
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  Speaker 1: its laboring classes to foreign contiguous territory end of Appendix
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