INDUSTRIOUS JAPAN

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20270, 12 August 1937, Page 16

INDUSTRIOUS JAPAN

A TOUR OF THE EAST. “Travelling through several hundred miles of country, i dir! not son a quarter of an acre lending itself to cultivation that was nol under cultivation,” said Hr. L. I). Cohen when he was talking of Japan on his return to Wellington. Dr. Cohen, accompanied by Mrs Cohen, spent four months lrav-1-ling in the East, visiting Australia, Manila, Singapore and Java during I lie trip. “Every Trt of land eanable of growing something is cultivated. There is no wastage: everything is used The crops are harvested bv hand with a knife, and when they are cut they are put down reverently. Most of the work

| is done by Koreans, many of whom are ■ j now being used in place of the farmers’ i Isons because of the intensity with | i which the Japanese are going in for, j education.” Everywhere he went, said Dr. j Ohm. he noticed a surfeit of child’rn They nl! looked healthv and a ! .-rent deal or attention was paid to their education. He saw large parties of school children, all in uniform, being • lo’svn over zoos and temnles. These outings constituted a part of their learn ng and sometimes tliev were! h’-nu-hl 200 and 300 miles for this purpose. “Ofo had heard various stories of! Hie d-meulty of getting cameras through the Japanese Customs.” lie,' said, “but on arr'val in Japanese] waters, mans are put up showing the! PorMOed areas where photographs] must not be taken; elsewhere Be-]!

strlctions are not imposed, and if one has any doubt he can ask the guide or seek advice from an hotel. "Tiie Customs are most intent on preventing any Communist I'lerature from crcltinir Into the country, and my experience wap that they give nvre attention to tlie hooks one is carrying than to anythin*? else. Ip recent y<« rs a law has he°n passed under whh*h a nerson can he fmpr snned for harhour!pc dangerous an' 1 ncer-rd'nc to one writer people are In -aol on this account.”