UNEMPLOYMENT

Taranaki Daily News, 8 October 1928, Page 11

UNEMPLOYMENT

JAPAN’S PROBLEM. Japan, turning her eyes front lands across the Pacific, now looks to Manchuria for help in her unemployment problem, Prof. R. D. McKenzie, of the University of ’Washington, told a conference at the Institute of Polities, at Sydney. “Deeply concerned a few years ago over the restriction of emigration to California,” he said, "Japan now realises that emigration to any country will not solve her unemployment problem (says a message from Williamstown, Mass., to the Milwaukee Journal). In Manchuria, field for her industrial development, she must maintain her present status, even though she has no wish to annex that territory. “The United States have become so important to Japan,” he continued, “that there is no desire now to endanger those connections by raising questions of restriction. Surrounded as she is by great undeveloped territories, Japan does not face so serious a population problem as many assume. The general outlook for Japan is better than that for England.”

The population problem of the eastern empire, lie said, is not merely one of ratio between food supply and numbers of consumers. It is complicated by the fact that the standard of living in Japan has been rising even faster in proportion than the increase in population.