Katsuji watched the real estate industry spiral downward. His interest, helping issei buy property or lease land, was virtually obsolete. Yet in Auburn he had been selected the “district chair for real estate brokers supporting President Hoover’s reelection.” Perhaps Katsuji liked the leadership role. Or Hoover appealed to Katsuji because he had signed an immigration bill in 1929 that allotted a maximum one hundred immigrants from Japan annually. It was a paltry number, but still, it was better than nothing, which had been Japan’s humiliating status since Congress passed the Japanese Exclusion
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