The Japanese Presence in the United States Today

Abstract

Driving across town in Manhattan these days, the traffic congestion caused by midtown construction activity is by no means new or rare. What is unusual, however, is to see construction signs on the fences around these projects written in both English and Japanese. This same phenomenon is being repeated in other major cities around the country as well as in a whole host of smaller towns such as Georgetown, Kentucky; Bloomington, Indiana; Marysville, Ohio; and Smyrna, Tennessee.