Why Did Japanese Migrate To Australia
. Around the same time the underwater telegraph cable which linked Australia with the world was relocated so that it emerged at Broomes Cable Beach. Between 1945 and 1965 more than two million migrants came to Australia.
The reasons people migrated to Australia from Europe and Asia and the experiences and contributions of a particular migrant group within a colony. On 19 February 1942 Japanese bombs fell on mainland Australia for the first time. Until 1866 it was a capital offence for Japanese to leave Japan.
On 19 February 1942 Japanese bombs fell on mainland Australia for the first time.
Until 1866 it was a capital offence for Japanese to leave Japan. However in the later part of the nineteenth century Japanese had begun to emigrate. Over the next twenty months northern Australia was to endure almost a hundred air raids from Exmouth in the west to Townsville in the east. Prior to 1880 it was a criminal offence for Japanese to leave their homeland.
