THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 1909. JAPANESE EMIGRATION.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3205, 3 June 1909, Page 4

THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 1909. JAPANESE EMIGRATION.

Recent events in California have again concentrated public attention in Japan on the desirability of finding some solution of the vexed emigration question. In face of the doings of the t'acific coast agitators, the country as a whole has shown remarkable patience, and self-restraint, although the opinion is expressed in influential quarters that the situation is worse than when the question was first raised. Gsnerally, the Government's proposal to concentrate colonisation enterprise in neighbouring territories, such as Corea and Manchuria, is regarded as inadequate, and the hope that American prejudice will ultimately be overcome has not been altogether abandoned. The imitations of Far Eastern countries from the point of view of the class of emigrants who have hitherto gone to the United States are pointed out by the "Jiji Shinpo," a leading Tokio newspaper. It remarks that while the anti-Japanese movement in America is wrong and unjustifiable, so long as it exists the fact must be accepted. Were it po3 sibk, it would be more manly and in keeping with Japan's dignity to abandon for good a place where Japanese are not welcomed and are maltreated. Hut the movement of large bodies of people is not so simple a matter as that of a few isolated individuals. It should be borne in mind, continues the "Jiji Shinpo," that workers abroad will inevitably go to countries where a larger cash return is obtainable, and it would be impossible to divert the stream of emigrants from America and Australia to Corea and Manchuria. There exists a fundamental difference between the aims of the two classes of emigrants. The anxiety of the Government to collect Japanese emigrants within restricted spheres as near home as possible by withdrawing them from distant foreign lands is certainly well meant, but it is very doubtful whether such a wish cjn be realised. >