Eureka Reporter | 1906-07-27 | Page 4 | Advancement in Japan

advancement IN JAPAN great step forward fateen subjects of the mikado more eirls attend school the remarkable increase during the last few years in the number of women employed in various branches of commercial life in japan must be regarded as a very significant sign of the times not content with the occupations which have almost ex belonged to females they have now invaded those fields which have hitherto been considered as be longing to the male sex the experiment made in the em of women as clerks and bookkeepers has been found tory and we now find girls employed by many of the firms and stores in tokyo and other large cities the employment of women in these vari ous directions will do much toward emancipating the japanese women who have until now been entirely de pendent on men for the shaping 0 their destinies it Is only natural under such circumstances that female education should engage serious pub lie attention the number 0 girls receiving a school education it Is stated Is now more than eight times the number ot those at school ten years ago more remarkable are the figures given by the tokyo aduca society fifteen years ago the percentage of females admitted to the training school tor teachers was less than 20 as compared with the men but to day the rate has been corn plemely reversed the number of male applicants being now about 15 per cent of the total it is said women as teachers are proving themselves superior to men and that there Is consequently more demand for the former than the latter there Is no doubt that the employment of women in the various branches of business activity will steadily in crease with the advance of among them