Thursday, April 1, 2010

Wikipedia Entry on Japanese Americans is Incorrect

I recently searched Wikipedia for "Japanese-American" and found this entry. I don't know the Wikipedia author(s) responsible for this page but they should remove the entry on "net migration" of Japanese Americans. The statement that some older Japanese Americans are moving back to Japan is absurd. The older Japanese (Issei/first generation, Nisei/second generation) are dying of old age, they are not moving back to Japan.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_American
"net migration, however, is significantly lower[citation needed] because some older Japanese Americans have been moving to Japan."


From Wikipedia
Japanese Americans
(日系アメリカ人 Nikkei Amerikajin?) are Americans of Japanese heritage, either born in Japan or their descendants. Japanese Americans have historically been among the three largest Asian American communities, but in recent decades have become the sixth largest group at roughly 1,204,205, including those of mixed-race or mixed-ethnicity. In the 2000 census, the largest Japanese American communities were in California with 394,896, Hawaii with 296,674, Washington with 56,210, New York with 45,237, and Illinois with 27,702. Each year, about 7,000 new Japanese immigrants enter United States ports, making up about 4% of immigration from Asia; net migration, however, is significantly lower[citation needed] because some older Japanese Americans have been moving to Japan.[citation needed]

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