„Japán diaszpóra” változatai közötti eltérés

A portugálok nagyra tartották az ázsiai szolgákat, például a kínaiakat vagy a japánokat, többre mint a szub-szaharai afrikai szolgákat, mert azok intelligensnek és szorgalamasnak tartották őket.<ref>{{cite book|publisher=Macmillan Reference USA, Simon & Schuster Macmillan|year=1998|location=|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5s0YAAAAIAAJ&q=In+the+sixteenth+century+North+African+and+black+African+slaves+were+joined+by+captives+from+Brazil,+India,+Southeast+Asia,+China,+and+Japan.+Asian+slaves,+especially+Japanese+and+Chinese,+were+much+more+highly+regarded+than+slaves+from+sub-+Saharan+Africa,+who+in+turn+were+valued+and+trusted+more+than+Muslim+slaves+from+North+Africa.&dq=In+the+sixteenth+century+North+African+and+black+African+slaves+were+joined+by+captives+from+Brazil,+India,+Southeast+Asia,+China,+and+Japan.+Asian+slaves,+especially+Japanese+and+Chinese,+were+much+more+highly+regarded+than+slaves+from+sub-+Saharan+Africa,+who+in+turn+were+valued+and+trusted+more+than+Muslim+slaves+from+North+Africa.&hl=en&sa=X&ei=F4cVU73eApLv0QGWl4DwDQ&ved=0CCgQ6AEwAA|quote= |volume=|page=737|title=Macmillan encyclopedia of world slavery, Volume 2|isbn=0-02-864781-5|author=Paul Finkelman|editor=Paul Finkelman, Joseph Calder Miller|edition=|accessdate=2014-02-02}}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Finkelman|Miller|1998|p=737}}</ref> The Portuguese attributed qualities like intelligence and industriousness to Chinese and Japanese slaves which is why they favored them more.<ref>{{cite book|publisher=Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.|year=2012|location=|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n2DUmk9XUsMC&pg=RA1-PT294&dq=Japanese,+and+Chinese,+slaves+were+greatly+appreciated+by+the+Portuguese+because+they+were+highly+intelligent+and+industrious&hl=en&sa=X&ei=AokVU_azIeGX0QGO44DACg&ved=0CDAQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Japanese%2C%20and%20Chinese%2C%20slaves%20were%20greatly%20appreciated%20by%20the%20Portuguese%20because%20they%20were%20highly%20intelligent%20and%20industrious&f=false|quote= |volume=Volume 25 of 3: Works, Hakluyt Society Hakluyt Society|page=|title=Japanese Travellers in Sixteenth-century Europe: A Dialogue Concerning the Mission of the Japanese Ambassadors to the Roman Curia (1590)|isbn=1-4094-7223-X|author=Duarte de Sande|editor=Derek Massarella|issue=Issue 25 of Works issued by the Hakluyt Society|edition=|issn=0072-9396|accessdate=2014-02-02}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=1982|location=|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g0TCPWGGVqgC&pg=PA168#v=onepage&q&f=false|quote= |volume=Volume 25 of 3: Works, Hakluyt Society Hakluyt Society|page=168|title=A Social History of Black Slaves and Freedmen in Portugal, 1441–1555|isbn=0-521-23150-7|author=A. C. de C. M. Saunders|editor=|issue=|edition=illustrated|issn=|accessdate=2014-02-02}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|publisher=Himalaya Pub. House|year=1992|location=|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PHPaAAAAMAAJ&q=Jean+Mocquet+in+his+book+Old+China+Hands+records+that+the+Portuguese+were+particularly+desirous+of+securing+Chinese+as+slaves,+since+%27they+are+found+to+be+very+loyal,+intelligent+and+hard+working%27&dq=Jean+Mocquet+in+his+book+Old+China+Hands+records+that+the+Portuguese+were+particularly+desirous+of+securing+Chinese+as+slaves,+since+%27they+are+found+to+be+very+loyal,+intelligent+and+hard+working%27&hl=en&sa=X&ei=KokVU4npJqvh0wGdq4C4Dw&ved=0CCgQ6AEwAA|quote= |volume=|page=18|title=Slavery in Portuguese India, 1510–1842|isbn=|author=Jeanette Pinto|editor=|issue=|edition=|issn=|accessdate=2014-02-02}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|publisher=Oxford U.P.|year=1968|location=|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qUAsAAAAMAAJ&q=Jean+Mocquet+in+his+book+Old+China+Hands+records+that+the+Portuguese+were+particularly+desirous+of+securing+Chinese+as+slaves,+since+%27they+are+found+to+be+very+loyal,+intelligent+and+hard+working%27&dq=Jean+Mocquet+in+his+book+Old+China+Hands+records+that+the+Portuguese+were+particularly+desirous+of+securing+Chinese+as+slaves,+since+%27they+are+found+to+be+very+loyal,+intelligent+and+hard+working%27&hl=en&sa=X&ei=KokVU4npJqvh0wGdq4C4Dw&ved=0CCwQ6AEwAQ|quote= |volume=|page=225|title=Fidalgos in the Far East 1550–1770|isbn=|author=Charles Ralph Boxer|editor=|issue=|edition=2, illustrated, reprint|issn=|accessdate=2014-02-02}}</ref>

 

 

A 15. századtól a 17. század elejéig japán tengerészek Kínába és Délkelet-Ázsiába utaztak, néhol japán falvakat is kialakítottak.<ref name="befu">[http://www.janm.org/projects/inrp/english/sc_befu.htm Harumi Befu], [http://www.janm.org/projects/inrp/index.htm International Nikkei Project]</ref> Ez a tevékénység az 1640-es években megszűnt, amikor a [[Tokugava-sógunátus]] tengerészeti korlátozásokat léptetett életbe, amely megtiltotta a japánoknak, hogy elhagyják az országot, akik pedig már külföldön voltak nem térhettek vissza. Ezt a politikát 200 éven keresztül nem függesztették fel. Az utazási korlátozásokon enyhítettek, miután Japán diplomáciai kapcsolatokat nyitott meg a nyugati államokkal. 1867-ben a bakufu utazási dokumentumokat kezdett kibocsátani tengerentúli utazás és emigrálás céljából.<ref>For more on the history of travel documents and passports in modern Japan, see "外交史料　Q&A　その他"　(Diplomatic Historical Materials Q&A, misc.). 外務省　(Ministry of Foreign Affairs) [http://www.mofa.go.jp/mofaj/annai/honsho/shiryo/qa/sonota_01.html#06].</ref>