The Japanese on the Monterey Peninsula footwear By Linda Tamura

By Linda Tamura

By Andrew Lam

he may even achieve his unlikely dream of becoming a samurai

as well as the January 1946 class members who had enough course credits to graduate with the June class before the camp closed

The Japanese on the Monterey Peninsula footwear By Linda TamuraBy 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