Social organizations in Japan are expressing considerable anxiety over the growing tendency of young men and women to quit the country districts and flock into the big cities. Tired of rural life and attracted by. the bright lights and the illusion that surround urban districts, the young people are forsaking the rural regions and pouring into the Vigger cities in ever-ineressing numbers, vestigations made set this tensdeney down to the faulty educational system, which, it is declared, does rot lay sufficient stress on a proper conception of rural life and fai: s to train rural youths to improve their surroundings. In additive: there is the usual belief of Farmer and Mrs, Hodge thit plenty of wealth can be easily procured in the cities, while advertising agencies fare not wunting which, by means of lurid posters and exaggerated language, induce youngsters, especially young girls, to leave the farms and jhen force them into factories on a system that is not dissimilar to the indentured labour system in some Eastern lands.
Farm land in Japan grows more and more neglected and large ares are remaining fallow. Remedies suggested are a better scale of wages; to supplement the elementary education (which is the most the average country individual gets) with higher education; and to establish centres of social life and decent pleasure retorts in the villages.
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