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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 4503965, member: 2844&quot;]The opening up of Japan to others besides the Dutch meant a huge demand for Japanese goods, which led to mass production and industrialisation. Just like in Western countries, industrialisation casued a greater demand for child labour. Japanese legislation regarding child labour was only introduced in th early 20th century.</p><p>The one thing that protected Japanese children to some degree is that Japan already had strict education laws in the 19th century. So these children would have gone to school. But they are girls, so their chances of a good future were hugely diminished by gender discrimination, which was (and is) even worse in Japan than in the Western world.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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