Re: [DL] Japanese in DL

["Ed Greaves" <temporus@hotmail.com>]

Sorry folks.... the ancient Japanophile in me just kicked in.

The Meiji Restoration started in 1868, NOT 1879.  And the opening up of 
Japan to the west started in 1853, with US Commodore Matthew Perry steaming 
into Tokyo Bay with US gunships.

It is feasible for Japanese samurai to be in the american west at this time. 
  However, there were no real major immigrations of japanese to the US 
mainland until almost 1900.  If you were dealing with Hawaii that would be 
different.  There, Japanese start immigrating in around 1868.

It's feasible to have the random Japanese person, but not large contingents 
of them.  They should be rare and exotic.

Ed Greaves
temporus@hotmail.com
http://vger.rutgers.edu/~olorin

>From: Spacedog <spacedog2@xoommail.com>
>Reply-To: deadlands@gamerz.net
>To: deadlands@gamerz.net
>Subject: Re: [DL] Japanese in DL
>Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 19:07:18 -0800
>
>"V.A.G" wrote:
>  >
>  > >
>  > >  Realize that at this time Japan had totaly
>  > >closed itslef off to the outside world. people
>  > >weren't leaving or entering Japan.
>  >
>  > Not qite true. By 1879 the Meiji Restoration
>had led to a new approach which
>  >   opened the country...
>
>True enough but deadlands is currently in 77
>going on 78. They will not get to 79 until 2002
>at this rate. Also the appearence of the things
>that started appearing in 63 may have changed
>minds and they may have kept their borders closed
>longer.
>This does not mean you cannot make what you were
>talknig about just realize tha japanese are even
>rarer than chinese.
>
>
>Spacedog
>
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