Editing Picture bride (section)

==Motives of husbands==
In the late 19th century, Japanese, Okinawan, and Korean men traveled to Hawaii as cheap labor to work on the [[sugarcane]] [[Sugar plantations in Hawaii|plantation]]s.<ref name="Takaki 1983 119">{{cite book|title=Pau Hana: Plantation Life and Labor in Hawaii, 1835-1920|last=Takaki|first=Ronald|publisher=University of Hawaii press|year=1984|isbn=0824809564|location=Honolulu|page=[https://archive.org/details/pauhana00rona/page/119 119]|url=https://archive.org/details/pauhana00rona/page/119}}</ref> Some continued on to work on the mainland.<ref name="Lee 2003 23">{{cite book|title=Prostitutes and Picture Brides: Chinese and Japanese Immigration, Settlement, and American Nation-Building, 1870-1920|last=Lee|first=Catherine|publisher=Center for Comparative Immigration Studies|year=2003|page=23}}</ref> These men had originally planned to leave plantation work and go back home after a few years or a contract was up.<ref name="Takaki 1983 119"/> Between the years of 1886 and 1924, 199,564 Japanese entered Hawaii and 113,362 returned to Japan.<ref name="Lee 2003 23"/> However, many men did not make enough money to go back home.<ref>Ogawa (n.d.). para. 11.</ref> Also, in 1907 the [[Gentlemen's Agreement of 1907|Gentlemen's Agreement]] prohibited immigration from Hawaii to the mainland United States for laborers.<ref name="Lee 2003 23"/> Because now these men were put in situations with limited mobility, they had to make Hawaii or the mainland United States their home, and part of that was getting married. In Hawaii, the plantation owners also wanted to see the laborers get married. Though they had originally preferred single men, when the contract labor system was abolished, the owners thought that wives would make the men more likely to settle down and stay.<ref>{{cite book|title=Pau Hana: Plantation Life and Labor in Hawaii, 1835-1920|last=Takaki|first=Ronald|publisher=University of Hawaii press|year=1984|isbn=0824809564|location=Honolulu|pages=[https://archive.org/details/pauhana00rona/page/121 121–122]|url=https://archive.org/details/pauhana00rona/page/121}}</ref> Also, the plantation owners hoped that wives would limit the amount of gambling and opium smoking the workers did, and act as a morale booster for the men.<ref name=":0">Fan, C. (1996). Asian women in Hawai'i: migration, family, work, and identity. NWSA Journal, 8(1), 70-84. Retrieved from Academic Search Complete database.</ref>