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Japanese Americans are inhabitants of North America with Japanese ancestry. This mainy describes the immigrants in the United States and their descendants.
The word Nikkei, which means Japanese ancestry, is also used today.

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The main reason for this was that immigrants thought the relationship between different races would be better in Hawaii.
Other reasons were, the dream of better opportunities and the search for peace and prosperity. They left their unstable homeland for an improved life, a better job and a chance to provide a better future for their children.
People thought the immigrants would discover a new and radically different way of life.

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Hawaii and California are home to large numbers of Japanese Americans.
Washington, Nevada, Illinois and New York also have relatively high numbers of Japanese Americans.

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In this years the so-called policy of land closure was followed, which did not allow the Japanese to leave the country.

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In 1868, the first Japanese (141 men, six women and one child) were allowed to emigrate and were sent to work as guest workers on Hawaiian sugar plantations. However, they were considered illegal soon, because the new Meiji government did not recognise this permission.

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Japan and Hawaii concluded a treaty of friendship and commerce in which the employment of Japanese in Hawaii was released without restriction. Nevertheless, no Japanese were allowed to emigrate for the next 14 years.

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Official emigrants were sent in the treaty with the then independent Kingdom of Hawaiʻi.
Japanese emigrants took this wave of emigration as an opportunity to increasingly emigrate to Hawaii and the United States.

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Japanese immigrants were increasingly subject to restrictions in the western states:
In the Californian Alien Land Law of 1913, for example, prohibited them from buying land because they could not acquire American citizenship on the basis of the Naturalisation Act.
In some areas, there were also attempts to create separate education systems or to prohibit marriages between Japanese-born immigrants and whites.

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The Immigration Act then prohibited East and South Asians from acquiring citizenship and banned further immigration. The Japanese government and public reacted negatively to the restrictions.

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The attack of Japan on Pearl Harbor was set in the history of Americans.
When Japan stationed troops in Indochina, despite warnings from the USA, the USA imposed an embargo, which was tightened a year later and Japan was cut off from oil.
Japan negotiated with the USA, but planed to attack Pearl Habor at the same time.  2,400 US soldiers died in the attack. The situation escalated and the USA declared war on Japan. Following the Japanese surprise attack, the Second World War also began in East Asia. However, Japan did not realise that the USA only suffered "minor" damage.
The war in the Pacific lasted almost four years and about 2.3 million people died.

In 2016, 75 years after the attack on Pearl Harbor, US President Barack Obama received Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe at Pearl Harbor. Their meeting is seen as another step towards reconciliation between the two nations, following President Obama's visit to Hiroshima in 2015.

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During World War II, Japanese Americans were interned in special camps, with an estimated 120,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans distributed in eleven different camps in the United States, mostly in the West.  Americans of Japanese descent, were forcibly interned with their parents and children.
Nevertheless, many Japanese Americans served with distinction in the US armed forces during World War II. The 442nd Regimental Combat Team/100th Infantry Battalion is the most highly decorated unit in US military history, this unit was made up of Japanese Americans, yet their families remained in internment camps.
The 100th Infantry Battalion was one of the first units to liberate the prisoners of the concentration camp at Dachau.

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Since the end of World War Two the relationship between America and Japan hat gotten better. It is characterized by cultural, economic and political exchange. For Japan their alliance is the center of their security and defense policy and they are one of the most important allies for the USA.

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There are various sites about Japanese immigration. The old Japanese people who migranted to the US experiensed many difficult things like discrimination, low wages, war and so on. But they migrated for new development and for the following generation who now has a better future.
Since the end of World War Two the relationship between them hat gotten better.

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https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanische_Amerikaner

http://www2.hawaii.edu/~sford/alternatv/s05/articles/laura_history.html

https://www1.wdr.de/stichtag/stichtag-angriff-japan-pearl-harbor-100.html

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beziehungen_zwischen_Japan_und_den_Vereinigten_Staaten

https://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/japan-und-die-usa-beziehung-mit-missverstaendnissen-1.1605783

https://www1.wdr.de/stichtag/stichtag6168.html

https://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/news/tn-wknd-et-japanese-internment-20170413-story.html

https://www.fdrlibrary.org/curriculum-guide-internment