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Vol. XLI. No. 6 25 Cents a Copy June, 1931 The College Students Goodwill Tour from Japan on the steps of the Pan-Pacific Club of Honolulu where they were guests for two weeks. HMLTN CLOSED DU 620 ,M5 gm 1. arif • •fil inucuica . x. TI/r• filthal 5 r gb 5 CONDUCTED BY ALEXANDER HUME FORD 4-- Volume XLI Number 6 A, CONTENTS FOR JUNE, 1931 ;,i■ The Present Condition of Japanese Women 503 • By Hiroe Ishiwata • Chinese Students in the United States. 507 • By Chih Meng • Filipino Women Pharmacists 509 48 By Juan Barbera ,...4 • i Industrial Psychology in Australia 511 . By Ralph Piddington .: The Movement for Women Police in New Zealand - - - 515 • By Elizabeth B. Taylor • • Hindustani in Fiji 517 • • By A. W. McMillan • • Homemaking Practice Given Girls in Hawaii 521 • • By Inez Wheeler Westgate • • • Child Protection in the Americas 527 By Katharine F. Lenroot • If_ The Ting Hsien Mass Education Experiment 535 '' By Y. C. James Yen 14- If!. • Summer Resorts in Japan 539 • By Alexander Hume Ford ! I : Progress of the Filipinos Under the American Regime - - - 543 By N. C. Villanueva g Bridging the Pacific 547 By Ulyss S. Mitchell a The Rural Village Problem in Japan 551 t 4. By Tahei Tamura .15 • In Defense of the Liberal College 555 By Kenneth Chun 5 4. • -1. The Changing East 559 By Shinji Abe • ,...4 • 4 Education and International Understanding 563 By Dr. William H. George • • 4 The Canadian Rockies 571 By Dorothy V. Whyte II 5 Non-Conformists 1 575 By Makoto Nukaga .1 In Memory of Lorrin A. Thurston 578 i5 • Index to Volume XLI (January to June, 1931, inclusive) - 579 0 Bulletin of the Pan-Pacific Union and Pan-Pacific Youth - - 581 • • .1 . (fit It ilith-Farifir filagazittr Published monthly by ALEXANDER HUME FORD, Alexander Young Hotel Building, Honolulu, T. H. --,. Yearly subscription in the United States and Vossessions, $3.00 in advance. Canada and Mexico, $3.25. For all foreign countries, $3.50. Single Copies, 25c. -.3 Entered as second-class matter at the Honolulu Postoffice. -,--: t1 Fo Permission is given to reprint any article from the Mid-Pacific Magazine. IX •vympsy4twor Amwr.1 3vvvy4mpftwammo9p4m • • • • • tur • • ,roar • •.I.MOL) . Printed by the Honolulu Star-Bulletin. Ltd. 502 THE MID-PACIFIC Colleges for women in Japan are not as numerous as those for men. and unless they are technical institutions such as the Tokyo Women's Medical College, they do not prepare girls for professions. Doshisha University at Kyoto was the first, and, for a long time, the only co-educational institution in Japan. Three or four of the larger uni- versities are now accepting women students. THE MID-PACIFIC 503 VZILIWUr • PUTIR71 • lUnVil A 9999 M4rknktiVI1 I The Present Condition of Japanese Women By HIROE ISM WATA Nihon Women's College, Tokyo. 1.ntrinainucitymed[inunenticarnaniintinuntinunuritionticonvintintintinthat e /nun! 1 (Given in the International Oratorical Contest at Scott Auditorium, Honolulu, April 10, 1931) Perhaps it would not be without sig- nificance to speak on this occasion about the Japanese women, their ideals, and the problems they are confronted with today. We have little to say about the upper class women, because they are com- paratively few in number and most of them confine their career to the home life. What we are interested in are the women belonging to the middle and the lower classes. Their scope of activity is indeed great. And the women's prob- lems that confront us now chiefly con- cern those classes. From the occupational point of view there are of course a great many varie- Miss Hiroe Ishiwata, the first Japanese ties of women. The kinds of work they college girl to enter an international are engaged in are ever increasing. There oratorical contest in a foreign country. are about 29 million women in Japan, and out of them about 10 million are in who aspire to study the English lan- occupations of one kind or another. guage is rapidly increasing in recent Most of those women belong to the years. Their end is not only to broaden proletarian class and their thoughts are their own intellectual fields, but to use more or less inclined socialistically. The it as a means of the international pur- doctrine of Marx is extremely popular pose for their movements. among them and engendering some A number of girls go to America and radical elements no doubt, but they are European countries to study and come serious in their attitude and are con- back with new assurance as well as in- stantly trying to get stimulus from the tellectual power for fighting further for corresponding women's movement in the cause of womanhood in Japan. We America and European countries. It is love and respect those western countries obvious that they are being westernized and are ever ready to welcome every- fast in their thoughts and ideals. thing from them. And why? Because The number of women, for instance, we know that it gives us the essential 514 THE MID-PACIFIC The students' dormitory of the Tokyo Women's Medical College, founded by Dr. Yayoi Yoshi- oka, a delegate to the First Pan-Pacific Women's Conference in Honolulu, 1928. power for living and teaches us to know legally in the full sense of the word as ourselves and awake to ourselves. human beings, women and citizens. The best thing we can get from the It is again a movement of self-awak- western civilization is neither the ened women of new Japan to regain splendid buildings nor the smart style of their old lost right of freedom, equality, clothes, but the very sense of democracy. and activity. The movement had grad- This is very simple to say and has been ually developed first among the minority said thousands of times before. And of self-awakened women, and later, yet the more we think about it, the more fusing itself deeper and wider until at fully we can appreciate it. last it has become very recently a move- It is this spirit that has opened our ment more universal in nature. way to emancipation. It has at least Facing the practical necessity of their suggested to us the way to our true hap- securing rights, women masses came to piness. It has inspired the doll-like participate in the execution of the re- women of the Meiji Era into taking up cent election of February 20, 1928. And a new career to do something good of since the election a marked interest has their own will. In fact, considerable been shown in the Women's Suffrage changes have already been made by the Question by the political parties. hands of women. And at length the movement made an Let me take an example from the advance so rapid that the present Gov- Women's Suffrage Movement in Japan. ernment was forced to submit their own Of all the problems confronting the bill to the Diet last session, though it women of Japan today, it is now the was not entirely satisfactory to us. The focus of keen interests and attention. It bill was to allow women to take part is a movement of the new womanhood in village, town, and city politics, but of modern Japan to become established not in matters pertaining to prefectural THE MID-PACIFIC 505 Biochemical Laboratory of the Tokyo Women's Medical College. affairs or those of national importance. and protection. And yet I am sorry to We then demanded that the Govern- say the factory work in Japan has been ment should widen the scope of their based upon the assumption of women's proposed measure to allow women to subordinate position. A number of take part in prefectural elections. The women workers still receive a wage on original bill was rejected, meeting an which they cannot live a reasonably opposition of the Upper House, though comfortable life. But on the whole, a it passed the Lower House with great great deal of improvement has been support. accomplished in the last decade in the And we are rather satisfied, anticipat- treatment of factory girls. Recently, for ing the next big step, that is, to jump instance, the night work of women in up to the right to participate in national factories was abolished by legislation. politics in the next session. As you know, the abolition of women's Not only in the suffrage movement, night work is the convention passed at but in various other ways can be seen the first session of the International the influence of the democratic spirit Labor Conference held at Washington upon the women's life in general. I shall twelve years ago. Japan has some rea- take, for another example, the factory sons for being so behind the other problem, one of the most serious prob- powers in ratifying the convention. But lems in Japan. More than 80 per cent anyhow the very fact that she has man- of Japanese industries are textile and aged to put it into practice at the ex- the great majority of labor employed in pense of all her profits abroad is a these mills consists of female operatives. promising sign for the solution of prob- You can imagine without difficulty un- lems of this kind. der the circumstances what tremendous I spoke of the factory problem, be- problems are involved in their welfare cause it explains better than anything. 506 THE MID -PACIFIC else the influence of the democratic pared with others she is almost a spirit upon women's life in general. western country now.

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