Japanese Americans

Japanese Americans

Japanese Americans once comprised the third largest Asian group (after Chinese Americans and Filipinos) in the United States, numbering about 850,000. However, according to the 2010 Census, the Japanese American population has decreased to 763,325 and now represents the sixth largest Asian population behind Chinese Americans, Filipinos, Asian Indians, Vietnamese, and Koreans (U.S. Bureau of the Census, 2012). One report suggests that this decrease may in fact be attributed to the multiracial category recently added to the census stating that “today, more than two-thirds of all Japanese Americans were born in the United States. Of this group, the trend is for them to marry other Asian Americans, unlike their parent's generation. About three-fourths of U. S. born Japanese-Americans are wed to non-Japanese ...