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Aspiring for Meiji Paradise: Philippine perceptions of the Meiji regime,
Pan-Asianism, and Economic MigrationKarl Ian Uy Cheng Chua
Ateneo de Manila University [email protected]
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Philippine History
• Meiji Period (23 October 1868 – 30 July 1912)
1853 – Matthew Perry and the black ships1868 – Charter Oath is written1889 – Meiji Constitution is promulgated1894 – Sino – Japanese War1904 – Russo – Japanese War1912 – death of the Meiji Emperor
Japanese History
• Spanish Rule of the Philippine (1565 – 1898)
• Philippine Revolution (1896 – 1898)
• Spanish – American War (1898)
• Philippine – American War (1899 – 1902)
• American Period in the Philippines (1900 – 1935)
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Filipino admiration of Japan
• Modernization of the Meiji government gave hope to Filipinos for their own independence
• Jose Rizal’s interlude in Japan from 28 February – 13 April, 1888• Filipino exiles in Yokohama
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Japanese assistance to the Philippine Revolution
• Arrival of the training ship cruiser Kongo (金剛) 1896• Jose Moritaro Tagawa (田川森太郎) and the written agreement• 1.5 Million pesos for 100,000 rifles, 150 cannons and ammunitions
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The Katipunan and the Shishi (志士)
Emilio Aguinaldo in Hong KongArtemio Ricarte in Yokohama
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The failed assistance
• 10,000 Murata rifles, 1 fixed canon, 10 field guns, 7 field glasses, 1 pressing machine for gunpowder, 1 machines and materials for the manufacture of 5 million rounds of ammunition.
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Things to consider
• The new Meiji Government and the Navy supported American annexation of the Philippines
• The army and some shishi Panasianists supported the Philippine revolution
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Japanese labor migration to the Philippines
• 1903 - 1905: Kennon Road Construction• ”legitimate“ migration• 1903 – 1945: Abaca plantations in Davao
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Profile of the labor migrants (Hayase) Diplomats of Meiji Japan in the Philippines
• Majority were from farming villages of Hiroshima, Fukuoka, Fukushima and Kumamoto prefectures
• Mortality rates were high• Myth of the Japanese migrant worker
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Japanese labor migration to the Philippines
• Karayuki-san (1890 – 1920)• “illegal” migration• ”Betrayal” by the governments w