HIST 114 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Santa Barbara City College, Pineapple
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Japanese peasants already paid a high rent to landlords for the land they farmed, but now they were also faced with higher taxes, forced into military service, and had to pay for the education they wanted now. Emigration to hawaii-japan remained a country under meiji rule where an ordinary japanese person has had to struggle to survive. Now that many japanese workers had been allowed to leave the country, they have decided to find new lives outside of japan. They heard stories of employees in the united states receiving five to ten times as much as the japanese labor force. The challenging conditions pushed average japanese people out of their homeland while at the same time they were attracted to the opportunities offered in the usa. By the 1880s large numbers of japanese people were able to move to the united. Yet few could afford the cost of the long ocean voyage.
