The article was in-depth regarding to the mostly Japanese but other asian picture brides. The only two criticisms I have are one; the wording chosen for some of the sentences. for example, the sentence “the spread of the Japanese people grew so rapidly that” makes ‘Japanese people’ sound more like a disease than an ethnic group. Secondly, picture brides or the overall concept of picture brides is not unique to Asia. Russia, continental Africa, and other parts of southern America indulged in the practice. It would be nice if the history of picture brides immigrating to the western world outside of Asia were included.