New attempts are being made once again to induce further colonization of the Hokkaido. It is believed that this island of Japan Proper can easily absorb another—2,000,000] people and the authorities propose to attract immigrants thither by offering them free grants of land, a amall money subsidy and the means, whereby to cultivate their land. Stock-raising in the Hokkaido is also a new feature of the present plans to induce internal colonization of that region, Japan does not, however, acquiesce in the justice of the claim made by certain lands that exclusion is not due to racial inferiority or superiority, but is based on racial instincts or difference. She thinks that, "racial instincts," in this case mea nothing else than racial prejudice. To regard Japan's present schemes for distributing her surplus popula-_ tion over hor own areas—which, by the way, is not a new scheme but only a revival of an old one—as tan-amount to acceptance of the American immigration bill is incorrect. Japan is willing not to send hez immigrants to America, but she refuses to regard the—Immigration issue as a closed one.
Japan believes, as Viscount Ish said at Geneva, that for the next 20 years she' can manage to dispose of her surplus population in ther own territories and to increase the possibilities of living through. intensive cultivation and indust zation. Bat, as Viscount Ishii added, it is impossible to say to-day what her desires will be when her population shall have so expanded after 20 years that she may be forced by sheer necessity to seek an outlet for her surplus nationals.
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