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Conscription was deeply unpopular not only among the (former) samurai class, but among the citizenry as well. Many people worked to find ways to claim an exemption, and in 1873-1874, nearly 100,000 people were arrested for involvement in riots attacking enrollment/registration centers.<ref name=gordon66/>
Conscription was deeply unpopular not only among the (former) samurai class, but among the citizenry as well. Many people worked to find ways to claim an exemption, and in 1873-1874, nearly 100,000 people were arrested for involvement in riots attacking enrollment/registration centers.<ref name=gordon66/>
Conscription was only first extended to [[Ainu]] communities in the 1890s,<ref>Gordon, 75.</ref> and to parts of [[Okinawa prefecture]] in [[1898]], with the [[Miyako Islands|Miyako]] and [[Yaeyama Islands]] only being incorporated into the system in [[1902]].
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