Introduction: Yamato Colony and Morikami Sukeji At the beginning of the 20th century, Japanese people began settling in Florida, located in the southern part of the east coast of the United States. In South Florida, where there was not even a trace of Japanese people, a "Japanese village" was established …
Before you know it, you're surrounded by foreigners Two years ago, when I was guided to a shiitake mushroom farm near Lake Toya in Hokkaido, I saw many young Chinese women working there. "There are no young people in the local area, and they won't come," the manager told me. …
Dennis Moriguchi as CEO In 1868 (the first year of the Meiji era), a group of Japanese emigrated overseas for the first time. Their destination was Hawaii. 150 years have passed since then, and we are now in an era where fourth and fifth generation Japanese Americans are being born …
Uwajimaya has grown through the solidarity of the Moriguchi family, but what created that solidarity was the love each family had for their family business, and the compassion of their seven children for their parents, the founders Fujimatsu and Sadako Moriguchi. On the other hand, it seems that the parents, …
Around the time of moving to King Street in 1970, the Moriguchi family's Uwajimaya diversified beyond retail sales. In 1966, they started a food wholesale division. They named the store Seasia, derived from Seattle Asia. The company sold imported goods from Japan and other Asian countries to supermarkets and other …
In the unity of the family After the death of the founder, Fujimatsu Moriguchi, the second son Tomio became president of Uwajimaya, and the four brothers, Kenzo, Akira, and Toshi, expanded the business. The opening of a store at the 1962 World Expo was a major factor in expanding the …
Uwajimaya opened a store at the Seattle World's Fair held from spring to fall of 1962. Despite being a small store of only a few square meters, it was successful and attracted many customers. However, in the middle of this period, the head of the Moriguchi family, founder Fujimatsu Moriguchi, …
In September 1950, five years after the end of the war, the Pacific route connecting Japan and Seattle was reopened, and the following year the San Francisco Peace Treaty (Treaty of Peace with Japan) was signed, and Japan regained its independence. Trade and exchange between the two countries also progressed, …
According to "A Hundred Years of Japanese Americans in the United States" (Shin Nichibei Shimbunsha, 1961), after the war, the Issei returned to Seattle and competed to buy hotels, apartments, and office buildings, developing businesses in ways other than the traditional leases. Various trades and businesses run by Japanese Americans …
During the war, ten Japanese-American internment camps were established in California, and in addition to the Japanese-Americans who were initially interned there for geographical reasons, those who were deemed to have no loyalty to the United States were later gathered there. On the other hand, those who were deemed to …
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