The Japanese on the Monterey Peninsula footwear By Andrew Lam

By Andrew Lam

few baseball fans know about the Japanese American Nisei Leagues

a third-generation Japanese American

he may even achieve his unlikely dream of becoming a samurai

a portion of which is depicted here

The Japanese on the Monterey Peninsula footwear By Andrew LamBy Tim Thomas and the 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