• grue@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    And I guess since the Meiji Restoration was bad news for the samurai class, it makes sense that they would want to emigrate.

    (I looked it up because often it isn’t the upper classes that are motivated to leave a society, but in this case it checks out.)

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      8 months ago

      This was my thinking for the Samurai, we are basically looking at embassy staff and exiles that managed to retain their weapons.