Unemployment conditions in the Japanese community are showing rapid improvement as a result of prccautions taken by the authorities to curtail the influx of jobless "boomers" from Japan, according to Japanese newspapers.
In April, the number of unemployed far exceeded employers but this situation was reversed in May, when jobs were more numerous than persons seeking them, in a ratio of 100 to 40, the dailies said, quoting a statement by Mr. Yasuharu Ishizu, Direc-for of the employment exchange bureau of the Japanese Residents'
Corporation.
The Japanese population in Shanghai was 44,851 on June 1 and was said by the papers to be "making rapid strides toward the goal of 300,000 for Greater Shanghai," There are 16.992 households, 25,776 Japanese men and 19,075 Japanese women.
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