ABSTRACT
The majority of the Japanese who came to Britain between the two wars arrived as single young males, with the exception of the very top echelon of diplomatic and business circles who already had families and were entitled to bring them over to Britain. As we have seen in Chapter 1, the number of males arriving in Britain far outweighed the number of females. This unbalanced sex ratio was common to other immigrant groups that came to Britain as well as to Japanese immigrants who went to the Americas. In Hawaii, it was a cause of instability and crime in the Japanese community, and only after the arrival of designated brides from Japan and the birth of female second generation Japanese children did the situation improve. 1 On the whole, there was little intermarriage between the Japanese and other races in Hawaii and the US among the first generation immigrants despite the fact that the pool of available Japanese women was small to begin with. In Britain, however, the imbalance of the sex ratio among the Japanese led to a considerable number of intermarriages.
