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Show uu TENANT FARMERS OF JAPAN REVOLT OSAKA. Japan, July 1. As In most countries with a large tenant farmer population. Japan Is faced with a ' land problem. In recent months, In several parts of the country, but es-peclally es-peclally In Osaka and Yyushu prefectures pre-fectures tho tenants have been returning re-turning the land to the owners because be-cause of the latter's refusal to grant them a larger percentage of the I crops, the farms in-inu worked on the share system. These tenants claim thai under the present system, with' 'H,""V'T.i ' ..,! imipi SBBSJJ long hours and arduous work, tho I learnings of a family averages $11 MEp ' monthly. br'' The land owners on the other hand Hp j c;,lm that besides raising much of their own food on the land the ten-ants ten-ants have the income from by-pro- ducts which Increases, their earning- H considerably but against this tlo- I farmers offset the Increased cost of H fertilizers, large quantities of which MRpi' have to be used all over Japan, and IHKV' irrigation. Ht. Some of the owners are propositi-; I to farm their own land and are mak- ing trials with tractors for plough- Hh& Ing, but the tenants assort that the H labor for sowing or planting which i H case of rice must be done by hand ML' will not be forthcoming. According Be'," to the latest statistics, the number I of the tenant-farmers in this countrv JH Is 5. 4$2. 000. Their tenant-land Is 3 105,00" oho (one cho being about IHfpf 25 acres) in area and the crops ar- about 60.8 IS, 000 koku (one koku pi iRjfcJ ing about four bushels) H |