A Changing National Picture
After five generations in the United States, Japanese Americans are no longer the country’s largest Asian group, having dropped to third, behind Chinese and Filipinos, in the 1990 census.
Still, among people of Asian ancestry, Japanese Americans enjoy the highest representation in politics, government and the upper echelons of academia and the corporate world.
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