Tokio, June 21.
The Home Department have decided to make an appropriation of an amount of Y.400,000 for thd encouragement of Japanese emigration. Of this amount Y.250,000 will be allowed to settlers overseas, and Y.150,000 to settlers in Hok-kido, Korea and Miyazaki-ken.
Oversea emigrants now number over 1,000 annually, the majority of them going to the South Seas and South America. A concrete plan for entouraging oversea emi-+ grants is now under the consideration of the Home Office, and will shortly be announced.
The new regulations which have been issued in regard to settlement in Hokkaido, are decidedly mora favourable for intending settlers than the old ones. Each family will be granted a plot of tillable land 225 acres in area, which wilt become the property of the settler after cultivation for five years, instead of ten years, as hitherto, while during the first year of settlement the Government will grant the settler and his family a maintenance allowance.—Reuter.
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