 On their return, Furuta contracted with a Caucasian builder to construct a four-room bungalow on his farm.The finishing touches were made on the house by March 1913-documented in a photograph of Yukiko Furuta standing on the front porch-only months before passage of California's Alien Land Law of 1913 in May of that year.The passage of the Alien Land Law meant that Charles Furuta was one of the rare Japanese immigrant landowners in California.