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There were many push factors for Japanese immigrants to leave their home country. The most important one of all was the living conditions in Japan after the war.
During the war the American army and the British army sent atomic bombs into Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan which injured and killed many. The bombs are still affecting Japan today. Here is video footage of it.
The nuclear radiation from the atomic bombs made the people sick and diseases spread. Some areas in Japan are still restricted today.Many people decided to leave and find a new place to live for health reasons.
Here is another video of the atomic bomb.
The majority of the pull factors for Japanese people to come to Australia are the following:
Many Japanese students immigrated to Australia after the second world war because of the education in Australia. They were mainly high school students and university students who traveled here by themselves.
Many came here because of the many opportunities to earn money. At that time many Japanese suppliers were not earning enough money to pay their workers a high salary or to hire workers. Many workers and their families migrated to Australia. Even though the work here was very tough, they earned nearly ten times more than in their previous jobs in Japan.
There were many reasons why people might want to stay. Some of the reasons were: Japanese people saw leaving Japan to go to a new place as the top offense to their country.At the time, many people still believed in this. Also, even though Japan after the war was basically destroyed it was still their own country and people loved their own country.