Excerpt from The Chinese Student, Migration to Tokyo

The Chinese Student Migration to Tokyo The most striking fact in the student world in recent years has been the migration of such large numbers of Chinese students to the capital city of Japan. It was only ten years ago that two young men went from Shanghai as the first officially commissioned students of China to study in Japan. As recently as six years ago, when I was delivering a lecture in the Imperial University in Tokyo, I observed a few Chinese students in the audience and on inquiring the number of Chinese students then in Japan was told that it probably did not exceed a score. Two years later the number had grown to 500, the next year it exceeded 2, 000. In the following year the Chinese students came over to Japan at the rate of about 500 each month so that by the end of that year, 1905, there were over 8, 000 of them in Japan. In the autumn of 1906 the Japan Mail stated that there were then fully 13, 000.

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