Question

Explain the objectives of vietnamese students who had gone to japan for higher education

Answer 1

In 1907-08 some 300 Vietnamese students went to Japan to acquire modern education. These nationalists looked for  foreign arms and help. They appealed to the Japanese as fellow Asians. Japan had modernised itself and had resisted  colonisation by the West. Besides, its victory over Russia in 1907 proved its military capabilities. Vietnamese students  established a branch of the Restoration Society in Tokyo but after 1908, the Japanese Ministry of Interior clamped down on  them