The Japanese on the Monterey Peninsula

by Tim Thomas and Monterey Japanese American Citizens League

From fishermen to farmers to business leaders, the Japanese on the Monterey Peninsula have played a vitally important role in making Monterey what it is today. After the United States imposed the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882, the number of Japanese immigrants to the West Coast increased in large numbers. In 1895, one of those immigrants, Otosaburo Noda, noticed the incredible variety of fish and red abalone in the bay. He developed the first Japanese...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 073857497X
• ISBN13: 9780738574974
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.5" x 9.1"