MIGRATION MOVEMENTS IN CHINA AND JAPAN

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6947, 28 June 1929, Page 4

MIGRATION MOVEMENTS IN CHINA AND JAPAN

FINDING NEW HOMES. , “The greatest and in many ways the most significant Chinese migration of recent wears is within the bounds of Greater China, the. northward trek of Chinese from, the crowded provinces of Chihili and Shantung into the sparsely populated and. comparatively peaceful provinces of Manchuria has trebled, and is now about .26,500,000,” says Miss Ruth Rouse, in the Internationa! Review of Missions. “The Japanese dispersion is as .large as the Chinese in proportion to tho population of the mother country. Japan is a colonial power, with large groups of its own people overseas, under its own flag—in Korea, in Formosa, in mandated islands in the Pacific and in the leased territories in China. Tho Japanese government, facing a serious problem! of overpopulation, is encouraging emi- ( gratien on a large scale within the Empire. Tier© are already 186,000 Japanese in Southam Saghalien, but the government is proposing is twentyfive years to send 63,000 families to the island to develop its agricultural, i 1 pastoral, mineral and forest industries, and estimates that the Japanese popu- 1 ration will be at least 1,250,000. e

“A more remarkable development of Japanese migration is to South America. In Peru there are already nearly 12,000 Japanese; in Brazil, in the State of Sao Paulo, nearly 80,000. Large settlement. The Japanese seem destined to play in the United States of Brazil at least, as important a role as the Irish or Scandinavians in the United States of America. The Japanese government is systematically ed-, seating its emigrants for assimilation in overseas countries through recognised emigration.' societies, training centres and overseas museums.”