64-587: The Madison Diner , formerly known as Big Star Diner , is a restaurant in Bainbridge Island, Washington . It has been featured on the Food Network series Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives . Moon Washington says the diner has a "retro, 1950s-era setting". The menu has included breakfast options such as corn pancakes and bacon, as well as burgers, salads, sandwiches, and a chorizo scramble and salmon hash. This Washington -related article
128-497: A 35-minute ride away on the Washington State Ferries . The city has occupied the entire space of Bainbridge Island since February 28, 1991, when the 1.5-square-mile (3.9 km ) city of Winslow (incorporated on August 9, 1947), annexed the rest of the island after a narrowly passed November 1990 referendum. It officially remained the city of Winslow for several months, until November 7, 1991, at which time
192-488: A lesser degree). Within Japanese-Canadian communities across Canada, like their American counterparts, three distinct subgroups developed, each with different socio-cultural referents, generational identity, and wartime experiences. The narrative of issei Japanese-Canadians include post-Pearl Harbor experiences of uprooting, incarceration, and dispersal of the pre-war Japanese-Canadian communities. Among
256-627: A major crop of the state. The largest Issei community settled around Vacaville, California , near San Francisco. When the Canadian and American governments interned West Coast Japanese in 1942, neither distinguished between those who were citizens ( Nisei ) and their non-citizen parents ( Issei ). When the apology and redress for injustices were enacted by the American Congress and the Canadian Parliament in 1988, most of
320-713: A role model of American citizens by being hardworking, law-abiding, devoted to family and the community. However, some Americans did not want to admit the virtues of the Issei. The Immigration Act of 1924 represented the Issei's failed struggle against the segregation. The experiences of the Issei extend from well before the period before 1 July 1924, when the Japanese Exclusion Act came into effect. The Issei, however, were very good at enhancing rice farming on "unusable" land. Japanese Californian farmers made rice
384-550: A significant diversity of other coastal land forms, including spits , bluffs , dunes , lagoons , cuspate forelands , tombolos , tide flats , streams and tidal deltas, islands, and rocky outcrops. The high point is 425-foot (130 m) Toe Jam Hill . On the Kitsap Peninsula, Bremerton and Poulsbo lie across the Port Orchard channel to the west, and the city of Port Orchard lies across Rich Passage to
448-680: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Bainbridge Island, Washington Bainbridge Island is a city and island in Kitsap County, Washington , United States. It is located in Puget Sound . The population was 24,825 at the 2020 census , making Bainbridge Island the second largest city in Kitsap County. The island is separated from the Kitsap Peninsula by Port Orchard , with Bremerton lying to
512-497: Is about 5 miles (8 km) wide and 10 miles (16 km) long, encompassing nearly 17,778 acres (27.778 sq mi; 71.95 km ), and is one of Puget Sound's larger islands. Bainbridge Island shorelines border the main body of Puget Sound, as well as Port Orchard Bay, a large protected embayment , and two high-current tidal passages, Rich Passage and Agate Pass . The island has an irregular coastline of approximately 53 miles (85 km), with numerous bays and inlets and
576-603: Is based on Bainbridge Island. The novel's author, David Guterson , lives on the island and worked for ten years as a teacher at Bainbridge High School . Bainbridge Island is the main setting of the 2021 novel You Love Me , the third installment in the You series by novelist Caroline Kepnes . Kepnes visited Bainbridge while writing the story and used the names of several local businesses. In Michael Crichton 's 1994 novel Disclosure , protagonist Tom Sanders lives with his wife and two children on Bainbridge Island. Some scenes from
640-700: Is connected to the Kitsap Peninsula by the Agate Pass Bridge , carrying SR 305 over Agate Passage at the island's northwest corner. The only other way off the island is by the Seattle–Bainbridge Island ferry , the Washington State Ferries service from the dock at Winslow in Eagle Harbor to Colman Dock (Pier 52) in Seattle. Numerous public right of way access points to water around the island also exist, officially called Road Ends. When
704-735: Is featured in the first episode of the fifteenth season of the HGTV reality television series Island Life . A local restaurant, the Big Star Diner (now known as the Madison Diner ), is featured in the tenth episode of the first season of the Food Network series Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives . Bainbridge has the following sister cities : Issei Issei ( 一世 , "first generation") are Japanese immigrants to countries in North America and South America. The term
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#1732800886549768-618: Is represented by Democrat Derek Kilmer . In the 2008 Democratic primary (which in Washington state was not used for delegate appointment), Barack Obama defeated Hillary Clinton by a margin of 67.8% to 29.7%. This was Obama's second-best performance in an incorporated municipality in the state, behind Yarrow Point . In the earlier caucus , Obama received 79.3% of delegates, Clinton received 19.8%, and 0.1% were uncommitted. The Bainbridge Island Museum of Art opened in June 2013 near
832-800: Is served by the Bainbridge Island School District , which houses the following public schools: BISD also offers home-based and student-directed educational programming under the umbrella of the Commodore Options School: The Puget Sound Naval Academy , formerly the Moran School, operated on the island from 1914 to 1933, and then again from 1937 to 1951. In 2001, Bainbridge Island Little League were represented in South Williamsport, Pennsylvania at
896-505: Is the downtown core and has most of the shopping and dining. Lynwood Center on the south end of the island has several restaurants and a small hotel. Fletcher Bay (also referred to as Island Center) has a small grocery store and one restaurant. Rolling Bay is located on the east side of the island. The local newspapers are the weekly Bainbridge Island Review , Kitsap Sun , and the Bainbridge Islander . Bainbridge Island
960-537: Is used mostly by ethnic Japanese. Issei are born in Japan; their children born in the new country are nisei ( ni , "two", plus sei , "generation"); and their grandchildren are sansei ( san , "three", plus sei , "generation"). The character and uniqueness of the issei is recognized in their social history. The earliest organized group of Japanese emigrants settled in Mexico in 1897. In
1024-614: The Issei almost never caused trouble in the civil authority. The arrest rate for the Issei from 1902 to the 1960s was relatively lower than for any other major ethnic group in California. The only exceptions were that some young Issei committed crimes relating to gambling and prostitution , which stemmed from different cultural morals in Japan. The post-1900 cause to renew the Chinese Exclusion Act became generalized protests against all Asian immigrants, including
1088-465: The Issei were dead, or too old for it to make any significant difference in lives that had been disrupted. The number of issei who have earned some degree of public recognition has continued to increase over time; but the quiet lives of those whose names are known only to family and friends are no less important in understanding the broader narrative of the nikkei. Although the names highlighted here are over-represented by issei from North America,
1152-567: The Issei , came in 1883. During World War II, Japanese-American residents of Bainbridge Island were the first to be sent to internment camps , an event commemorated by the Bainbridge Island Japanese American Exclusion Memorial , which opened in 2011. They were held by the US government through the duration of the war for fear of espionage . A High-frequency direction finding (HFDF) station
1216-668: The Little League World Series . The island's high school lacrosse team has won state titles, the most recent coming on May 19, 2007. In 2009, the Bainbridge High School Fastpitch team won the Washington 3A State Title. The team also played in the championship game in 2010. In 2011, 2012 and 2018, the Bainbridge High School Girls Lacrosse team won the state championship. Pickleball was invented by
1280-403: The film adaptation later that year were filmed on the island, including at Bainbridge Ferry Terminal and Capt. Johnston Blakely Elementary School. The epilogue of the 1996 film That Thing You Do! reveals that main characters Guy Patterson and Faye Dolan moved with their four children to Bainbridge Island, where they founded the fictional Puget Sound Conservatory of Music. Bainbridge Island
1344-589: The 21st century, the four largest populations of diaspora Japanese and descendants of Japanese immigrants in the Western Hemisphere live in Brazil, the United States, Canada, and Peru. Brazil is home to the largest ethnic Japanese population outside Japan, numbering an estimated more than 1.5 million (including those of mixed-race or mixed-ethnicity), more than that of the 1.2 million in
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#17328008865491408-535: The 23rd governor of Washington , is a local resident, and represented it in Congress from 1999 to 2012. Bainbridge Island is in Washington State's 23rd District and as of September 2023 is represented by Democratic state senator Drew Hansen and Democratic state representatives Tarra Simmons and Greg Nance . In the U.S. Congress Bainbridge is part of Washington's 6th congressional district and
1472-606: The Issei in Illinois , taken between 1986 and 1989. The experience of emigrants is inevitably affected by a range of factors directly related to the Japanese society they left behind. As immigrants, the conflicts between the old country and the new played out in unique ways for each individual, and yet common elements do begin to appear in the history of the Japanese Canadian and Japanese American communities. Japan
1536-503: The Issei. Since Chinese immigration to the U.S. was largely limited, hostility fell on the Issei. American labor organizations took an initiative in spreading anti-Japanese sentiment . White Americans wanted to exclude them since they did not want any Asians to take their jobs away. As a result, they formed the Asiatic Exclusion League that viewed Japanese and Chinese as a threat of American workers. The protest of
1600-471: The United States. In 1913, California's Alien Land Law prohibited non-citizens from owning land in the state, and several other states soon after passed their own restrictive alien land laws . This included the Issei , Japanese residents born in Japan, but not their children, the Nisei, who were born in United States or Hawaii, and who therefore were American citizens by birth. Many of the Issei responded to
1664-521: The United States. The issei Japanese Brazilians are an important part of Asian ethnic minorities in Brazil. The first members of the issei emigrated not directly to the mainland United States , but to Hawaii. These emigrants—the first of whom arrived on board the steamship City of Tokio in February 1885—were common laborers escaping hard times in Japan to work in Hawai'i. Their immigration
1728-488: The Winslow ferry terminal. It was developed by Cynthia Sears, who began collecting works of art made by island residents in 1989. The museum cost $ 15.6 million to construct and includes a 99-seat auditorium, a classroom, and other spaces. The building has 20,000 square feet (1,900 m ) of space and was designed to resemble the bow of a ship. The fictional San Piedro Island in the 1994 novel Snow Falling on Cedars
1792-681: The approximately 100,000 (2021) Peruvians of Japanese descent living in Peru, the issei Japanese Peruvians comprise a small number. Japanese-Americans and Japanese-Canadians have specific names for each of their generations in North America. These are formed by combining one of the Japanese numbers corresponding to the generation with the Japanese word for generation ( 世 , sei ) . The Japanese-American and Japanese-Canadian communities have themselves distinguished their members with terms like issei , nisei , and sansei , which describe
1856-514: The average family size was 2.98. In the city, the population was spread out, with 26.7% under the age of 18, 3.6% from 18 to 24, 23.8% from 25 to 44, 33.1% from 45 to 64, and 12.8% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 43 years. For every 100 females, there were 94.5 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 90.0 males. Bainbridge Island has four centers of commerce: Winslow , Lynwood Center , Fletcher Bay (also referred to as Island Center), and Rolling Bay . Winslow
1920-484: The census block group in which Winslow is located had a median household income of $ 42,000, less than half of the island's median household income and one-third of several of the island's wealthiest block groups, and also $ 10,000 less than national and statewide averages. More than half of Winslow households live in rental units, compared to 20% of households across the island. As of the 2010 census , there were 23,025 people, 9,470 households, and 6,611 families residing in
1984-405: The city of Winslow annexed the entirety of Bainbridge Island in 1991, it absorbed numerous named unincorporated communities . Most of these are still referred to by name. According to a 2007 estimate, the median income for a household in the city was $ 88,243, and the median income for a family was $ 108,605. Males had a median income of $ 65,853 versus $ 42,051 for females. The per capita income for
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2048-603: The city of Winslow was renamed the city of Bainbridge Island. Bainbridge Island was formed during the last ice age—13,000 to 15,000 years ago—when the 3,000-foot-thick (910 m) Vashon Glacier scraped out the Puget Sound and Hood Canal basins. Bainbridge Island is in the Puget Sound Basin, east of the Kitsap Peninsula , directly east of the Manette Peninsula and west of Seattle . The island
2112-405: The city was $ 37,482. About 3.0% of families and 4.4% of the population were below the poverty line , including 3.8% of those under age 18 and 3.3% of those age 65 or over. The socioeconomic profile varies significantly between the rural parts of the island and Winslow, its urban center. In contrast to Bainbridge Island as a whole, Winslow is home to households with a wide range of incomes. In 2010,
2176-415: The city. The population density was 735.6 inhabitants per square mile (284.0/km ). There were 8,517 housing units at an average density of 308.5 per square mile (119.1/km ). The racial makeup of the city was 92.88% White, 0.28% African American, 0.62% Native American, 2.40% Asian, 0.11% Pacific Islander, 0.75% from other races, and 2.96% from two or more races. Hispanics or Latinos, of any race, were 2.17% of
2240-406: The city. The population density was 833.9 inhabitants per square mile (322.0/km ). There were 10,584 housing units at an average density of 383.3 per square mile (148.0/km ). The racial makeup of the city was 91.0% White, 0.4% African American, 0.5% Native American, 3.2% Asian, 0.2% Pacific Islander, 0.7% from other races, and 3.9% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 3.9% of
2304-410: The constraints which arose within a Canadian or American society dominated by racist ideology. Substantive evidence of the working lives of Issei women is very difficult to find, partly for lack of data and partly because the data that do exist are influenced by their implicit ideological definition of women. The kanreki (還暦), a traditional, pre-modern Japanese rite of passage to old age at 60,
2368-403: The ethnic Japanese immigrant community they had come to characterize their own generations. The issei , nisei , and sansei generations reflect distinctly different attitudes to authority, gender, involvement with non-Japanese, religious belief and practice, and other matters. The age when individuals faced the wartime evacuation and internment during World War II has been found to be
2432-470: The family of congressman Joel Pritchard at their summer home on Bainbridge Island in 1965. It is similar to badminton and tennis, but played with paddles and a lightweight plastic ball. Bainbridge Island has a seven-member city council. The members are elected to staggered four-year terms and appoint a city manager. Bainbridge Island is a stronghold of the Democratic Party . Jay Inslee ,
2496-636: The first, second and third generation of immigrants. The fourth generation is called yonsei ( 四世 ) and the fifth is called gosei ( 五世 ) . Issei ( 一世 , "first generation") is a Japanese-language term used by ethnic Japanese in countries in North America and South America to specify the Japanese people who were the first generation to immigrate there. Originally, as mentioned above, these words were themselves common nouns in Japan referred to generations or reigns . So they are also still used in Japanese terms for personal names , such as Erizabesu Nisei means Queen Elizabeth II . Within
2560-617: The former president, Theodore Roosevelt , and as a result, they signed the Gentlemen's Agreement of 1907 . This agreement led the period of settling and family building to come. By 1911, almost half of the Japanese immigrants were women who landed in the U.S. to reunite with their husbands. After the Gentleman's agreement, a number of Nisei , the second-generation Japanese, were born in California. Yet, it did not stop some white Americans from segregating Japanese immigrants. The Issei were
2624-490: The gaps which separated generational perspectives. In North America, since the redress victory in 1988, a significant evolutionary change has occurred. The nisei , their parents and their children are changing the way they look at themselves and their pattern of accommodation to the non-Japanese majority. There are just over one hundred thousand British Japanese , mostly in London. Unlike other Nikkei communities in
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2688-445: The idea of beginning, a psychological transformation relating to being settled, having a distinctive community, and the idea of belonging to the new country. Issei settled in close ethnic communities, and therefore did not learn English. They endured great economic and social losses during the early years of World War II , and they were unable to rebuild their lost businesses and savings. The external circumstances tended to reinforce
2752-619: The island while surveying the Pacific Northwest . Lt. Wilkes named the island after Commodore William Bainbridge , commander of the frigate USS Constitution in the War of 1812 . Settlers originally used Bainbridge Island as a center for the logging and shipbuilding industries with the island being clearcut at least two times in its history. The island was known for huge and accessible cedars, which were especially in demand for ships' masts. The original county seat of Kitsap County
2816-583: The late 1880s and early 1890s. Their purpose in moving to America was to gain advanced knowledge and experience to develop the modern society at home. Both students and laborers were attracted by the image of the United States as a country that welcomed foreigners. When they first arrived in the U.S., they had not intended to live there permanently, but rather to learn from Americans and to take that knowledge back home. While they encountered discrimination, they also made opportunities, and many settled in California, and later in Washington and Oregon as well as Alaska (to
2880-491: The law by transferring title to their land to their Nisei children. Americans generally viewed the Issei as a crude, ill-educated lot. Possible reasons for this may be the fact that most Japanese were forced to work in menial jobs in the U.S., such as farming. Many Issei were in fact better educated than either the Japanese or American public. Sixty percent had completed middle school, and 21 percent were high school graduates. Whether Christian, Buddhists, or nonbelievers,
2944-557: The league involved picketing and beatings of the Issei. In October 1906, amid this anti-Japanese milieu, the San Francisco School Board, carrying out a campaign promise of the mayor, ordered all Japanese and Korean pupils to join the Chinese students at a segregated school. The Issei were displeased with the situation and some reported to Japanese newspapers. This caused the Japanese government to protest against
3008-590: The most significant factor that explains such variations in attitudes and behaviour patterns. The term nikkei ( 日系 ) encompasses all of the world's Japanese immigrants across generations. The collective memory of the issei and older nisei was an image of Meiji Japan from 1870 through 1911. Newer immigrants carry very different memories of more recent Japan. These differing attitudes, social values and associations with Japan were often incompatible with each other. The significant differences in post-war experiences and opportunities did nothing to mitigate
3072-480: The pattern of Issei being predominantly friends with other Issei. Unlike their children, they tend to rely primarily on Japanese-language media (newspapers, television, movies), and in some senses, they tend to think of themselves as more Japanese than Canadian or American. Issei women's lives were somewhat similar, despite differences in context, because they were structured within interlocking webs of patriarchal relationships, and that consistent subordination
3136-405: The population. There were 7,979 households, out of which 36.8% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 63.1% were married couples living together, 7.1% had a female householder with no husband present, and 27.5% were non-families. 22.6% of all households were made up of individuals, and 9.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.52 and
3200-441: The population. There were 9,470 households, of which 31.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 60.2% were married couples living together, 7.1% had a female householder with no husband present, 2.6% had a male householder with no wife present, and 30.2% were non-families. 25.1% of all households were made up of individuals, and 10.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size
3264-580: The south. Despite the short distance over water and significant commuting population between Bremerton and Bainbridge Island, proposals to construct a bridge have been resisted on the Bainbridge side for various reasons. The island is quite hilly and hosts the Chilly Hilly bicycle ride every February. Bainbridge Island can be accessed by motor vehicle, bicycle, or foot through two access points, both on Washington State Route 305 . Bainbridge Island
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#17328008865493328-519: The southern end of Bainbridge Island while boat parties surveyed other parts of Puget Sound. Vancouver spent a day exploring Rich Passage , Port Orchard , and Sinclair Inlet . He failed to find Agate Passage , and so his maps show Bainbridge Island as a peninsula. Vancouver named Restoration Point on May 29, the anniversary of the English Restoration , in honor of King Charles II . In 1841, US Navy Lieutenant Charles Wilkes visited
3392-940: The southwest. Bainbridge Island is a suburb of Seattle, connected via the Washington State Ferries system and to Poulsbo and the Suquamish Indian Reservation by State Route 305 , which uses the Agate Pass Bridge . For thousands of years, members of the Suquamish people and their ancestors lived on the land now called Bainbridge Island. There were nine villages on the island; these included winter villages at Port Madison , Battle Point , Point White, Lynwood Center, Port Blakely , and Eagle Harbor, as well as summer villages at Manzanita, Fletcher Bay, and Rolling Bay . In 1792, English explorer Captain George Vancouver spent several days with his ship HMS Discovery anchored off Restoration Point at
3456-566: The visit of an American fleet commanded by Commodore Perry caused the new Japanese government to replace the Tokugawa system of economics and politics during the Meiji era to open its door to trade and contact with the outside world. After 1866, the new Japanese government decided to send students and laborers to the U.S. to bring back the knowledge and experience necessary for the nation to grow strong. After 1884, emigration of working classes
3520-411: The world, these Britons do not identify themselves in such generational terms as issei , nisei , or sansei . The first generation of immigrants, born in Japan before emigrating, is called Issei (一世). In the 1930s, the term Issei came into common use, replacing the term "immigrant" ( ijusha ). This new term illustrated a changed way of looking at themselves. The term Issei represented
3584-434: Was 2.41 and the average family size was 2.88. The median age in the city was 47.7 years. 23.7% of residents were under the age of 18; 4.1% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 17.5% were from 25 to 44; 38% were from 45 to 64; and 16.4% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the city was 48.3% male and 51.7% female. As of the census of 2000, there were 20,308 people, 7,979 households, and 5,784 families residing in
3648-479: Was a closed country for more than two centuries, 1636 to 1853, since military rulers from the Tokugawa family wanted to keep foreigners away from Japanese society. The only exceptions were Chinese and some Dutch , but even they were discouraged from associating with Japanese citizens . Also, it was strictly prohibited by law for ordinary Japanese citizens to go abroad. Change came around the early 19th century when
3712-534: Was at Port Madison on the island's north end. In 1855, the Suquamish tribe relinquished their claim to Bainbridge Island by signing the Point Elliott Treaty . The Suquamish agreed to cede all of their territory (which included Bainbridge Island) to the United States in exchange for a reservation at Port Madison and fishing rights to Puget Sound . The first generation of Japanese immigrants,
3776-606: Was established here by the Navy during the war. These radio intercept sites along the West Coast were used to track Japanese warships and merchant marine vessels as far away as the Western Pacific. The other West Coast stations were in California at Point Arguello , Point Saint George, Farallon Islands and San Diego. Since the 1960s, Bainbridge Island has become an increasingly affluent bedroom community of Seattle ,
3840-443: Was experienced both as oppressive and as a source of happiness. The Issei women lived lives of transition which were affected by three common factors: the dominant ideology of late Meiji Japan, which advanced the economic objectives of the Japanese state; the patriarchal traditions of the agricultural village, which arose partly as a form of adjustment to national objectives and the adjustment to changes imposed by modernization; and
3904-521: Was overwhelmingly male. Many Issei arrived as laborers. They worked in employment sectors such as agriculture, mining, and railroad construction. The Issei were born in Japan, and their cultural perspective was primarily Japanese; but they were in America by choice. Despite a certain nostalgia for the old country, they had created homes in a country far from Japan. If they had not been prohibited from becoming citizens, many would have become citizens of
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#17328008865493968-676: Was permitted; and the first issei began to arrive in North and South America soon after. For example, in 1890, only 25 Issei lived in Oregon. By 1891, 1,000 Japanese lived in Oregon. In 1900, 2,051 Japanese had come to live in Oregon. By 1915, Japanese men with savings of $ 800 were considered eligible to summon wives from Japan. Few Japanese workers came to North America intending to become immigrants. Initially, most of them came with vague plans for gaining new experiences and for making some money before returning to homes in Japan. This group of workers
4032-406: Was sometimes celebrated by the Issei and is now being celebrated by increasing numbers of Nisei. Rituals are enactments of shared meanings, norms, and values; and this Japanese rite of passage highlights a collective response among the Nisei to the conventional dilemmas of growing older. Japanese-American photographer Mary Koga documented elderly first generation immigrants in her Portrait of
4096-578: Was subsidized by the Hawaiian government, as cheap labor was needed for important commodity crops, especially its sugar plantations . Numerous Japanese eventually settled in Hawaii. Emigration of Japanese directly to the mainland began in 1885, when "student-laborers" landed on the West Coast of the United States. The earliest of these emigrated to San Francisco. Their numbers continually increased in
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