| Show NEW METHODS IN JAPAN empire of the mikado Is now enczur ag ng em grat on in response to russia s encroach ments in korea the japanese govern ment has arranged that every mall steamer leaving for that country shall carry male japanese colonists this marks a change in japanese poll cy not less revolutionary than id many other directions it is only in modern japan of the last thirty beart that emigration has been permitted at all before then the natives were as strictly confined to the country foreigners were kept outside at the time of the change a few promising young men were sent across the seas to acquire western learning at its source some of the more enterprise enter pris ing smuggled themselves on board foreign bound ships this was how to mention but two well known in stances the adventurous youths ito and inoue entered on the careers which led them to become minister of state within the last fifteen years emigration from japan has been large much to the relief of the country which Is naturally poor and crowded |
