HIST 114 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Santa Barbara City College, El Dorado County, California, Emperor Meiji
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Emperor meiji japanese for "enlightened one: soon realized that japan was economically, socially, and militarily far behind the. United states and the european nations: few national leaders have ever come to power with a greater desire to push a whole country to change. Japan in 1869: japanese immigrant farmers worked the wakamatsu tea and silk farm colony in. El dorado county, northern california, under the leadership of american john. In the united states the u. s. census of 1870 reported 55 japanese, all living in. California: nevertheless, the cultivations of the farm eventually failed, and these first. Japanese immigrants returned to their homeland before 1880: the emperor sent a team of japanese diplomats on a two year united. Youth japanese children were inspired by government textbooks to model their lives after. Emigration to hawaii: japan continued to be a country under meiji rule where an average citizen of.
