Writings on Sabah's socio-economic development tend to focus on the roles played by the British and other Europeans but neglect the contributions of the Japanese, who have played a major part in the economic development of Sabah since the 1890s. Japan was a source of skilled and unskilled workers, and also prostitutes, in the 1890s, while the early 1900s brought growing numbers of peasant-agriculturalists, shopkeepers and small businessmen. Restrictive immigration measures introduced in the United States, Canada and the Philippines after 1900 forced the Japanese government to ...

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