JAPANESE IMMIGRANTS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 15 October 1913, Page 4

JAPANESE IMMIGRANTS.

A high tribute to the Japanese immigrant to Latin America is paid by a correspondent in the "Official Bulletin" of the Brazilian Intelligence Department in Paris. While regretting the influx of Orientals, the writer admits their good points. He states: "Some years ago the Japanese came to Sao Paulo. Further Japanese are now arriving who propose to devote themselves to the cultivation of rice and the mulberry tree on the coast. It is the beginning, of an immigration the importance of which cannot be estimated; it is a new proof of the Heed of expansion .awakened, after the lapse of nearly half a century, in the soul of Nippon. Japan dreamed i of large openings in the south of the j American continent above all in Brazil,' a market whose needs mount inter minally.'.' After, having sent merchandise, they send, men; I was present at Santos at the disembarkment of the first advance guard composed of 1000 people. The spectacle was curious, and very different fo the disembarking of European immigrants. The men, many of whom had their chests adorned with the Manchurian medal, carried little flags in which the Japanese and Brazilian colours'mingled, green and gold, white and. red. The extreme cleanliness of the Japanese was remarkable; while European immigrants, and especially those from the south of Europe, leave the ship that >has transported them in a filthy state the cabins »f the boat on which the Japanese arrived were as neat as at the time of departure. Each Off them had in his baggage, in addiiw ion the the inevitabe bottles of sauces and preserves, medicinal plants; writing paper, desk, small plates for eating rice, numerous articles of toilet, tooth paste and tooth brushes."