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Show RESIST LURE EXTENDED BY BRAZILIANS Few Seeking Fortunes in South America Despite Bonus Offers TOKIO. Feb. 25. .Tspanece emi- I grants have shown a decided dlsln- i cllnallon to seek their fortunes in 1 j South America In the n.ist CVo years! I despite the "'overcrowding" In Ja;ian j and offers of bonu- Tho Brazilian government psys 15 to each Japuncsc emigrant but, nevertheless, Japanese Ixbor conlrac-i tors have found It Impossible to fill- fill their conirucis with Ur,c.ill::n 1 coffee planters to furnish 3no0 Jap- j anese laborers each year. EXOD1 S i KPE ! l M Last year the number of Japanese I emlgr.ints to Brazil was estimated lt 900. These figures are glvon by an ; official of the cumnuTt la I bureau at- , taehed to the foreign office. Tho reason assigned for thl. disinclination dis-inclination to transmigrate to South J America is the improved status of tho labor market at home. Officials of tho bureau predict that the coming year will see a greater exodus from Japan thun for some 1 years past. The total Japanese population in l South America in 1920 Is estimate 1 by Japanese authorities at about 40,000. of whom 3 1.000 are in Brazil, Bra-zil, fiooo in Peru, 2000 in Argentina, 800 In Bolivia and t00 in Chilo. MO IE LURE l MtA Emigration is being encouraged by j the Japanese government, says Mr. Akamatsu, chief of the commercial bureau. Railway fao.es to ports of i embarkation are reduced and special j steamship rates offered. Bast year the government ad van Q-Sd Q-Sd $50,000 to one company to pro-1 mote emigration by means of moving j pictures showing conditions abroad, chiefly in South America. Comparative Compara-tive statistics show that Japan proper Is Just about OS thickly populated as, England. Japan has persons to the square mile against England's 372. Holland's 539 and Belgium's I 684. |