A Dozen in Tokyo econtly a Tokyo magazine raised for a woman journalist, and there were 280 replies, which shows both the enthusiasm to enter the profession and the scarcity of such jobs for women at present "Asahi," has been interviewed on the subject by another Tokyo paper, the japan Times." When Miss Takenake ed the "Asahi" 14 years ago she was the only woman on the staff and but the third Japanese woman to take up journalism in any form. For many years, she says, there was little increase in the ranks. But within the last few years the demand has extended, though the posts sre still discouragingly few, To-day there are about a dozen women on Tokyo newspapers and about 15 on magazine work.
Miss Takenake, however, is optimistic for the future of women Journalists in Japan. The increaseed demand will be one of the results of the spread of education among the women there. The woman's outlook is changing. Usually it ix assumed, says Miss Taken-ake, that the Japanese woman, because she has been very datifal in her role of wife und mother, is essentially weak.
'The truth is quite to the contrary, she asserts. "She has been pat: lent," Miss Takenake says, "but she has' not been entirely unthinking. Her very patience has given ber great strength. To-day, it might appear, going down the streets of Tokyo and observing the women, inciple, to get reacquainted with her family. No husband, however engrossed in business he may be, is 50 heartless as to dash two-minute breakfast and drive down town with only a hasty good-! bye to a sick wife. No, he and she have their breakfast a dour with the special little coffee set that
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