Tokyo, Jan. 15.
As Japan is making extensive plans to send a million Japanese farmers to Manchoukuo in the next twenty years in order to relieve the surplus population pressure on the land in Japan Proper, Chinese from Manchuria are being imported into northern Korea to make up for a labour shortage in that region, and Koreans in turn are coming into Japan in ever-increasing numbers to intensify the over-population problem, an official of the Japanese Ministry of Welfare discloses.
But the influx of Koreans is inevitable, he declares. Japanese firms regard them as a source of cheap labour. The higher wage-scale in Japan means that the Koreans, through the aid of labour broker will get into Japan by hook or by crook, regardless of prohibition.
"Great Over-population Yet the situation is intolerable he adds. There has been great overpopulation in the country districts in Japan, with improvement only since the "China Incident" began. Of course, with the sudden outflow of men for military service, Japanese farmers have complained of a shortage of labour, but that is simply because they continue to farm in the same old unsystematic ways.
Throwing more unskilled labourers into the country, will only bring back the old over-population problem.
At the same time, if Japanese are gradually replaced by (Koreans in unskilled jobs throughout the coun-there is danger of friction between the two races. The Koreans will be antagonistic because they always receive lower pay. The Japanese will come to despise the Koreans because of their inferior level.
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