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JAPAN'S POPULATION PROBLEM.

IMPERIALISM WILL BE PROVIDED NO SOLUTION?

BIRTH CONTROL AND DIMINISHING POPULATION IN THE FUTURE.

(Bx DR. S. WASHIO.]

Japan's financial crisis gives special interest to the following article by Dr. S. Washlo in the Japan Advertiser, dealing as it does with a great economic factor at the back of the surface

sturbances.

The problem of Japan is her enormous increase in population. Dr. Washia is of the fixed opinion that neither exploitation of China-herself over-populated-nor any other form of Imperialism will offer any solution. He believes that natural law will solve the problem and that from now onward a great decrease in population will be seen.

and

In the course of conversation with is the first sign of community sane a certain "Britisher over the naval tion and pressure.

I armament reduction problem tried to make him understand that ) the present strength of the Japanese navy is maintained by the pro fessional interest of the cavy mors than by any logical conception of the defence of the country against Britain or America, still less by ay thought of ever challenging their interest in the Pacific. For navy men it is a question of hiring their unwillingness to reduce is supported by the illogical inertia of the past imperialism, which still exists probably in the minds of a large percentage of the people. Bat all thinking men realize that a naval war with Britain or America would not only be fatal to Japan but is logically unthink able. My British friend did not see the force of this argument. He looked sceptical and said: But imperialism is im- plicit in Japan's conditions," and by, that he meant mainly the over- population of this country.

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A Static Society... Under the old feudal régime the economically static. country was Production was limited and un- changeable. Without famine and pestilence and other natural cal- amities taking periodical toll of lives production itself could have sustained just so much population and no.

more. Corresponding to this economic condition the social The pipe line to Singapore is structure was static. Its units were completed, and thus what is known not individuals but families and is the dry weather flow from the very profession was hereditary. Gunong can be used at once, at- No other profession was open to though the dam at Pulai which has mau and he never dreamt of to be constructed before the full hangat only had a less inflexible finished before the end of 1929. changing his hereditary status.

supply can be effective will not be outlook because of the elasticity of his business and proft. It is now

The supply which will be in Berally understood by our his torians that the economic basis of augurated next Sunday will give the approximately 3,000,000 gallons of the Meiji Restoration was growth of the wealth of the mer-water a day, and this, added to the cancile class at the expense of the old sources removes any possibility samurai. But even merchants were of water famine in Singapore, EXTRAORDINARY jealous of a new family in the same such as has threatened from time to trade being established in their com-time during past years. No liberal argument seems to be munity and there were strict guild In the Gunong Pulai area Sin- strong enough to dispel this preregulations about it

gapore has a source of supply which judice in the minds of foreigners.

will be more than sufficient to meet They seem to take it almost as a

the greatest demand which can be The static production of wealth prophesised at present, including natural force. This virile race that has shown auch remarkable adapt and the static social structure were the Zeeds of the Naval Base and ability, progress and expansion in naturally cause and effect to limit Johore town. One resersgir is now the past half century and is still the population of the Tokugawa in existence and already the pre- increasing at the unprecedented era. Man is a social animal and Iliminary work. has been began for rate of 700,000 to 800,000 a year in think the social sentiment has as the second reservoir at Pontian this small crowded country-what much influence as physical limita Kechil, which is another valley of other solution can nature offer button on the birth rate of a race. the same Gunong. imperialism1

We know from living testimonies The present reservoir, when the that aboration and infanticide were dam is completed, will

give common in old Japan but we have 6,000,000 gallons a day, and the no means of knowing how generally second 10,000,000 gallons, but it is they were practised.It is quite not expected that the full capacity probable that the birth rate itself of the second reservoir will be re- under the induce of both physical quired for several years-Straits and psychological tendencies of the Times.

was low,

Imperialism Hopeless.

The Birth Rate.

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I tried to convince him how we think that there is no chance for the success of imperialism. The 5-5-3 ratio is really a 10-3 ratio and is not good mough even for pure ly defensive purpose, which is for tunately not seriously expected. The phenomenal increase at the "But look here," said my friend in population of this country in the

QUACK DOCTOR FINED. effect, you have China. After

last half century is due to the rise Britain and America are driven out of modern industrialism and the

VACCINATING WITHOUT of it you have a tremendous oppor-substitution of individualism and tunity for the trade exploitation of free competition for the family aya-

PROPER AUTHORITY. that country and all the possi-tem of the feudal age. But this bilities that go with it." I do not process has now been completed or

For practising as a vaccinator know if this prospect may appear it appears to have been completed without the necessary qualifications, menacing in the minds of foreigners under the existing capitalist system a Chinese was fined 3200 at the imagining the situation from the of production. The country is over. Taipu Magistracy on Wednesday. distance. If the present Chinese capitalized and the standard of The defendant's name is Tsang chaos eventually settle down to living has risen. Under the man Yuct Chai, and he is an unregister- peaceful and orderly progress there agement of the past half century ed doctor living in Kowloon City, may be a brief period of expansion our natural wealth has been so ex- It was stated that following an of Japan's industrial interest in ploited that nearly in all fields of outbreak of small-por in the Shatin Chica Even that is very pro production we are facing the law district and the death of a young blematical. Even if there be such of diminishing returns and yet no brief period for Japan's advantage new method of production is in it will be confined to capital insight. We have economically come vestment and is a doubtful blessing to a new limit that ought to for the welfare of the Japanese stabilize our population. people at large. And it is certain

that very soon China will become

Static Once More.

man, the Police made investiga tions. They found that the defend. ant was vaccinating villagera

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The defendant was charged with performing inoculation for the pro vention of small-pox at villages in our chief industrial competitor, And corresponding to this limita- the Shatin district without being a She can compete with us in labour tion the social structure has also registered medical practitioner or force, and in the production of become inflexible. What are public, vescinator; using material cotton textile and silk and other dividualien and free competition other than Government-provided are the characteristic products and 20 per cent of university graduates that he was qualified to practice easily reproducible in China can get jobs of any kind and that medicine in Shatin. The defendant

China And Japan.

to the first fortunate 20 per cent. is elected by pleaded guilty favouritism rather than by merit charge. The other two charges How absurd is the foreign idea and every student before graduation were dismissed. of Japan's opportunity in China is knows thas it is pull rather than Defendant was said to have vac- indicated by the suggestion still his credit that counts in actual life. cinated people with the approval of made by some of them of giving It is a sad spectacle to see country & Government doctor. Persons who Japan a free hand in Manchuris parents still believing in the eff had been vaccinated by him were Whether or not. America or Britain ciency of education and mortgaging found to be in a satisfactory con give it us we will have it if we their lands in order to have their dition whos examined, and he was, can. But we know that China her- sons educated only to find them de therefore, given a paper which he self will not give it to us and that pendent on their hands after understood to be a certificate allow. we can't take by occupation this graduation or get so poor a job ing him to continue his work as a well populated area of China, to that they have still to make re-vaccinator. He had always pro which we have been able to send less mittances to them. I have heard of duced this paper when asked for than 200,000 people in the past 20 the practice of dismissing efficient his authority to practice, and it had

middle school teachers at 40, to 50 always been accepted. «

years.

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PROFESSOR PISLEY.

My friend looked still sceptical years of age on the pretext that The paper was not a genuine certi for he has in mind the incontraver-they do not hold a Mombuake ficate. tible evidence of Japan's over certificate but really in order to population. He seemed to take make room for new graduates. of the present increase of Japan's the normal schools that are being population as a fixed natural ten- turned out in increasing number. deney. None of my previous argu- Every official as soon as he reaches ments was convincing to him but his the highest salary allowed to his eyes beamed with interest when I rank must be prepared for retire PLENTY OF ROOM TO SEE said that I expect to see an evidence ment no matter how young and of the decreasing tendency of competent he may be unless he has a Japan's population in the course special pull. Japan is still a coun;

There need be no fear that there of the next ten years and that for try of salary earners and their posi 30 years before the birth of tion is now just as inflexible as was will not be enough accommodation modern Japan the population of the ppeition of the samurai in the for all Europeans and others who wish to a Professor Harry Pisler, this country stood stationary below feudal

at the "Gove the 30,000,000 mark. Abortion and

to continue whose wonderful demonstration in infanticide were common in old discourage birth control and let the occult science to local Pressmen was Japan and there was community class believe that a high referred to yesterday, when sanction for birth control or rather birth rate is the evidence of the appears at the Lee Theatre. Per community pressure for it. The vitality of this race and an asset cival Street, East Point, on Friday ground for this annction or pressure of this Empire; let foreign ob and Saturday nights.

The Theatre, which is within was, of course,

and under servers think what they will about economic the same economic limitation birth Japan's population, bit the same easy access of the Central district, control will have again the same cause will produce the same result being a matter of ten minutes tram community sanction and promure The cause that held Japan's popu ride, was only, it will be recalled, whatever the Government rosy say lation stationary for 300 years in over 9,000 people. The stalls ac be completed this year, and can seat or do. Indeed, such action, and fore the birth of modern pressure are already operative in again operating. It has been commodate no fewer than 1,500 the the form of private sentiment, operating unquestionably since the dress circle 500, and the balcony Until five years ago we did not close of the European War. Our 500. read so much discussion of birth population is still increasing by the

he

The Theatre, which is beautifully control in our magazines. It past inertia, but we shall see the decorated in the Chinese manner now freely and generally advocated evidence of the swing of the has a revolving stage of 40 feet and commented on in both men'i pendulum in the course of the next dimensions, and the width. acrOM and women's magazizes. And that, ten years Japan Advertiser. the proscenium is over 50 feet.

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