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The reasons why people left Japan varied greatly from person to person, period to period, and even region to region. From the late 1880s to the early 1890s, when Japanese began traveling to Hawai‘i and the United States for work, one of the primary motivators was letters from those relatives and friends who had already made the trip. Their correspondence talked about the high wages and favorable working conditions that could be expected abroad. In addition, young people were also inspired to emigrate by features in local newspapers in Japan about people from their region who had already achieved success overseas, or about the Western-style houses built by locals who had made their fortunes abroad and returned to their hometowns in triumph.
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