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*Due to geographic remoteness and periods of self-imposed isolation, the immigration has been comparatively limited. | *Due to geographic remoteness and periods of self-imposed isolation, the immigration has been comparatively limited. | ||
*Historian Yukiko Koshiro has identified three historically significant waves of immigration prior to 1945: | *Historian Yukiko Koshiro has identified three historically significant waves of immigration prior to 1945: | ||
:*the 8th-century settlement of '''Korean''' | :*the 8th-century settlement of '''Korean artists and intellectuals'''; | ||
:*the asylum offered to a small number of Chinese families in the 1600s; and | :*the asylum offered to a small number of '''Chinese families''' in the 1600s; and | ||
:*the forced immigration of up to 670,000 '''Korean and Chinese laborers''' during the Second World War.<ref>"Immigration to Japan," in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_Japan, accessed 3 July 2021.</ref> | :*the forced immigration of up to 670,000 '''Korean and Chinese laborers''' during the Second World War.<ref>"Immigration to Japan," in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_Japan, accessed 3 July 2021.</ref> | ||