ASIAN 422 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Honshu, Kyushu, Immigration Law
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Sent representatives in hawaii to see what was going on and tried to bring them back to japan. Brought about 40% of japanese back, lots died of disease. Was a free advisor to the japanese government. Japanese had population issues, had troubles feeding their own people. Said that people from the outside would help for the food problem. Worked between 10 (working in the field) and 12 (sugar mills) hours a day. Had ports in the southwest so that is where the emigrants came from. Kyushu island - fukuoka, kumamoto, nagasaki, saga, and kagoshima. Koreans were able to seal off their borders. About 200 years because european wanted to train. 1875 - koreans wanted to defend their borders, so japanese wanted damages from korean government. Japanese wanted to control korea"s trade and banking system. Due to japan and china fighting over the control of korea. China lost, china gave japan a peninsula, taiwan, another island, and korea.
