Japanese in Hawaii

Kepanī
ケパニ
Bronze statue of Japanese sugarcane workers erected in 1985 on the centennial anniversary of the first Japanese immigration to Hawaii in 1885.
Total population
312,292 (2010)[1]
Languages
Religion
Related ethnic groups
Japanese Immigrant's Assembly Hall in Hilo, built in 1889, today located in Meiji Mura museum, Japan.
"Japanese Laborers on Spreckelsville Plantation", oil on canvas painting by Joseph Dwight Strong, 1885, private collection.
Liliuokalani Park and Gardens, built in the early 1900s

The Japanese in Hawaii (simply Japanese Hawaiians or “Local Japanese”, rarely Kepanī) are the second largest ethnic group in Hawaii. At their height in 1920, they constituted 43% of Hawaii's population.[2] They now number about 16.7% of the islands' population, according to the 2000 U.S. Census. The U.S. Census categorizes mixed-race individuals separately, so the proportion of people with some Japanese ancestry is likely much larger.[3]

  1. ^ U.S. Census Bureau: QT-P8: Race Reporting for the Asian Population by Selected Categories: 2010
  2. ^ Thernstrom, Stephan; Orlov, Ann; Handlin, Oscar, eds. (1980). "Japanese". Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups. Harvard University Press. p. 562. ISBN 978-0-674-37512-3. OCLC 1038430174.
  3. ^ US Census 2000: [1] Archived 2020-02-12 at archive.today.