MODERN JAPAN

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17108, 14 November 1929, Page 8

MODERN JAPAN

MANY MEN UNEMPLOYED CANBERRA, October 28. So many graduates are educated in the universities of Japan that they have great difficulty in finding employment after completing their courses, and thousands each year are obliged to accept work as policemen, rickshaw drivers, railway porters, or laborers. This information was given in an, address to members of the Rotary Club of Canberra to-day by Miss Yuk'a Kimura San, a young Japanese member of the Young Women s Christian Association, who- is spending 12 months in Australia. The national life of Japan, the speaker said, had changed greatly since tiie earthquake. Formerly, women had been engaged only in domestic duties, hut so many husbands had been lost, in the national calamity that the Japanese women had had to learn to take part in business. Japan had undergone an industrial change, not as a result of tho earthquake, hut as. a result of the new civilisation —the Western civilisation. Some of the Western ideas had been swallowed rather hurriedly, and the Japanese were now suffering from indigestion in consequence. (Laughter.) They had learned that they would have to go slowly to pick up the best from other countries. So great was the unemployment among men that those who had passed through tho universities were beginning to think that there was something wrong with the present social system, and were causing concern to the Government. Tho greatest need was for great leaders to help in the solution of the problems of modern Japan.