1. Japanese Picture Brides
アローハーございます！

2. Mail Order Bride

3. ハワイに行きます！

4. Dressed up and ready to enter a new culture
From 1908 to
1928 many
Japanese
women
immigrated to
Hawaii and the
west coast of
America.
They went to
become brides
of Japanese
men working on
plantations.

5. あなたも行きたいでしょ？

6. I’m old! ビックリだね？！
Sometimes the
men turned out
to be older than
the women
expected.
The men often
sent pictures of
themselves
when much
younger.

7. Too Good to Be True
What they expected Reality

8. The End of Picture Brides
Many Americans
didn’t like the
picture bride
system. They
thought it goes
against true
love.
And they
thought the
picture bride
system was
creating
prostitutes.

9. Your Assignment
Write a letter
from a picture
bride or her
groom.
Use about 2/3
English and 1/3
Japanese
Use your
imagination!