WHERE ARE THE JAPANESE TO GO?

Evening Star, Issue 13003, 24 December 1906, Page 2

WHERE ARE THE JAPANESE TO GO?

The trouble between the Japanese and Coreans consequent upon the former crowding into the little kingdom to the exclusion of the natives is becoming more and nio.ee acute. A Japanese paper (the 'Yorodzu Choho'), referring to the situation, says i u The 'Corea Daily News,' published by Englishmen in Seoul, vehemently inimical to the Japaneso, appears to object to tho emigrar tion of Japanese to Corea. Commenting oil an article published by the ' Chosen Shimpo, in which our contemporary urges the Japaneso authorities to use every effort to encourage ' the immigration of our countrymen to that peninsula, the ' Corea Daily News' Kays that the Japanese people have the full intention of filling Corea and appropriating it to themselves. ' Coreans mast move on to make room for the Japanese,' -it continues. 'The State of Kansas, in America, has a larger area than the -whole Corean Empire, and over a half of Oorea is mountainous, and yet the ten millions in Corea are asked to make room for' at least seven millions more.'" The comments of the ' Yorodzu Choho' are interesting from, an Australian point of view. The paper says:—"We humbly beg the ' Corea Daily News' to teach us how to dispose of our surplus millions. Our little country can hardly find room within ita narrow boundary to accommodate half a million peoplewho increase year after' year. Of course,, wo cannot kill them wholesale; we cannot fill up the Sea of Japan to create dry land and settle them theroon. We •would like to go to Kansas or anywhere i except the lower world where we could cs-

cape starvation. But, however hospitable America may be, she refuses to receive so many incomers all at once. We would; very much like to cross over to Australia,,,but it ii white men's Australia, and although] that continent is many times larger thtih. Corea, and is very thinly populated, no cojored people a?e admitted there. We kno.w"Corent is densely populated, but there the least resistance as offered; and so we go there;'just as BngUnhmen. went to tho United :States and oisewhere, forcing the natives to. make room for them, as in days of yore. But if the ' Gorean Daily News' will kindly use,,its influence''in our favor, and persuade- the Americans and Australians to receive 1 any number of us, why, we - should leave Cotea alone! and emigrate to these lands of plenty with joy in our hearts."