Professor Shiga has returned to Japan from a visit to the Hawaiian 'Islands and a tour along the Pacific coast of the United States, and he draws a glowing picture of the happy lives of his countrymen in those favoured spots. Interviewed' by the Chuo's representative, the Professor said that be was simply dumbfounded by the extensive scale of the works undertaken by Japanese residents in Hawaii, He jelosely inspected those parts of the island which are not much inhabited by Japanese and was everywhere struck by the rapid development, which surpassed his most sanguine expectations. As to the oppress of the Japanese residents in Hawaii by the whites, so often reported, Dr. Shiga is of opinion that ithe result of the excessive; Japanese, white neighbours.
At Sacramento the local Japanese have in their possession a piece of ground with a house on it worth over Y. 26,000, where they are in the habit of holding meetings whenever occasion requires. Eight-tenths of the vegetable producte taken to the markets of Los Angeles are raised by Japanese and eagerly sought after by the white population, The Japanese succeed better in agricultural pursuits than in business, even those with small capital being easily able to build up competency. This gives no small amount of umbrage to the lower order of Americans.
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