Tokyo, Sept. 9.
There has been a great deal of newspaper comment recently on the "new emigration" policy of the Japanese Government. This policy. Which has evoked. congratulations from journals in London and New York, is to the effect that Japan will not desire to foist her surplus population on such nations as do not regard the Japanese as desirable and that, instead, Japan will, for the present. confine herself to populating her own territory, There is ample room for this within the confines of the Japan ese Empire and in Manchuria, e: pecially in Hokkaido, the largest of Japan's northernmost islands, in Korea and in Formosa, Distribution of her surplus population among the more sparsely-populated regions in Japan is no new venture, The idea was first entertained soon after the Imperial] Restoration 70 years ago. It was revived after the Russo-Japanese war, when Japanese statesmen thought it essential to have more Japanese settle in what then was as yet an independent Korea, It was further revived from time to time during ang after the great war.
Internal colonization or domestic! migration, however, in Japan cannot be called a success. For one thing, the Japanese is not a pioneer and does not care to stray away from his own village, unless the opportunity for garnering good results are plentiful and not fraught. with toward risks and difficult secondly, and this is not the least of the two reasons, successful domestic migration was not very easy because of the ability of Koreans and the Chinese to under-live the Japanese.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.