JAPAN AND EMIGRATION.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10657, 12 June 1912, Page 4

JAPAN AND EMIGRATION.

Count Olamia contributes to a Japanese paper some interesting reflections on the causes of his country's 1 comparative failure ini the matter of ©migration. If, 'he says, Japan is to take ■her place in the world, it is 'important forher to break down the religious and racial prejudice that is mainly 6spo.nsible .for the exclusion, of her people from such countries as the United States', Canada, Australia and South Africa. Next to this prejudice are political differences. "When & -large •number of Japanese congregate at any one point in America, lie sa,ys, "they- set up a village in- regular Japanese style, start a school and begin idriUinig children in loyalty and patriotism, and strictly .adhere to Japanese customs and manners. The .result is itteb ■when they wish to mingle with Americans they are not qualified. They are nttedy indifferent to itlhe manners and customs of the country, and sh'ow mo adaptability to their' surroundings. So the disposition isJiowin by ith;e ■■ American® # to re--fuse to have anything to do with our iimmigraui'tis lis a matiuiul feeling, contend that a system of education ,that fosters a narrow', paiU'iotiem. only, and turns .out a class of men out of sympathy 'with world-wide influence, i) 3 uselese., nay,, harmful. The true system of education would fit tine Japanese to stand itihe 'test in the struggle foi/ the isurvival of the fittest that is igoinig on in the world."