Chapter 19

Chapter 19 taught me many things I didn't previously know about the 1800's such as that British sold addictive opium to the Japanese's  against the Japanese' will. The problem of opium addiction was one of the many reasons their country began to decline, but also because of Japan's rising population and little wealth and resources. Japan especially did not want their citizens to be addicted to opium because if those citizens are addicted to drugs and aren't doing anything for the country like have a job then they are useless to society.