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Immigration & Citizenship - England

The first Japanese to live in England was a group of samurai who were smuggled into the country in 1863. Unlike the United States, Hawaii, or South America, there were no Japanese contract laborers to immigrate into England. Mainly students and businessmen went on an individual basis. After World War II, war brides arrived.

  • Novelist Kazuo Ishiguro, born in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1954 and raised in England, has dealt with the theme of Japanese in England.
Short article about Japanese Village in Knightsbridge, which opened in 1885. W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan created the operetta "Mikado" after Gilbert visited this village.

Bibliography

  • Sakai, Junko. The Crash of Economic Cultures: Japanese Bankers in the City of London. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2004.
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