The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1904-05-27
MANY JAPANESE
| live IN new YORK
Mikado's Subjects Who Are
Making Their Way in the
American Metropolis.
LEARNING OUR CUSTOMS
They Are Employed in Various DC.
eukations, Some as Cooks, Others
Lawyers, Some Are Humble
Laborers.

New York Globe: Although there is nc
Japanese quarter in New York, 1t cannot
be said that the elements of one, the Jap
anese themselves, are lacking to people 1t
Consul General Uchida estimates that as
many as 500 Of his cOuntrymcn find EN-
ploy Inent and homes in Greater New YORK
Some Of these are cooks and some are
lawyers, some are humble artisans and
others are Samura and men of power and
culturL
In the various schools Of Columbia uni
vers!ty more than a dozen sons of Dai
Nippon are matriculated At the Brook
Ign navy yard before the call to the colors
mad been issued, some twenty OF Japan
naval reserves were employed.
That no center of residence should have
been selected by them is not strange when
one considers that for the most part those
Japanese who elect residence here come
to occidentalize themselves and to study
American characteristics. Obviously they
could not attain to this end by associating
with their own countrymen and living
apart from the unconscious poasessors or
those qualities which they have come the
seas over to study and obtain
Live as Americans.
They live, therefore, elbow to elbow
with Americans, working side by side
with them, eating at the same table. and
struggling with the difficulties of new
tongue.
It must not be supposed. however, that
this remarkable adaptabiity of theirs
leads them to the permanent renouncinG
of their own customs, gods and methods
of life. There are in the Japanese mode
or thinking and living great many ma
tional traits which no amount of western
"civilizing'' can ever eradicate. Mutton
chops and French entrees cannot lessen
the liking of a Japanese for rice, for in
stance, nor can western abruptness and
informa!ity destroy his innate politeness
And so. at times. the japanese nature
reasserts itself. and the New York sub
jects of the mikado go to Nishimiya. and
eat raw fish. Nlshimiya is the popular
Japanese restaurant of New York, one OF
the few oascs in the Gotham desert where
a real Jap can eat real rice.
Some exquisite specimens of lacque,
and porcelain are among the furnishings
Of the establishment. The mcnu may con
sist of boned red snappers or bass, which
is served raw, before the soup, with SOY
sauce. a condimcnt made of barley anc
peas boiled and fermentcd. Then viii
follow a PURGE of assorted beam: and peas
or some highly spiccd chicken broth Their
fish once more broiled or boiled, anc
rice, such rice as dreams are made Of
Use Japanese Rice.
At first this rice was imported from,
Japan direct, but now that Japanese rice
is raised in Texas IN the japanese man
ner and by Japanese hands, most of tina;
consumed al Nishimiya or Saito. or a
any of the other five Japanese restaurant:
of the city comes from the Lone Star
state. After your rice you have have
salad, not the orthodox lettuce or chic.
DRY, but some special herb, raised BY
japanese farmers on Long Island. and liz
tie rice cakes and fruit.
AT Nishimiya you may have as your
next table ne!2hbor one of the few Mi
mosa Sans in New York. All told Their,
are less than 100 japanese women in tn,
New York colony, and a sight of some o
them is a delight to the eyes.
You may occasionally see there Jirr
Sakabc, head OF the Kyoto Manufac turins
and Trading company of 532 Broadway,
real Samura;, or Daiiolo Ushikubo New
York manager of the Yamanaka company
another Samurai. Nose of the twenty
two laureates of the government schoo
of agriculture and commerce who are her.
to study the American way Of doing bust
ness frequent one or the other of the Jap
anese restaurants whenever they 'hca,
the east a-calling."
Their Employment
Some of these honormcn of the Toxic
| school are employed in factories, other:
In banks and mercantile establishments
After five years they are expected to re
turn to Japan and give the state the ben
eft of what they learn while here
One of the traditions of the Old Sam
urai days which the japanese keep aliv,
amid their twentieth century matter-of
act surroundings in New York is the us,
Of the two-handed sword of feudal DAYS
The exercise has taken the form of fenc
ing with bamboo sticks.
To protect themselves from serious in
jury, the fencers wear masks not unlik,
those used In fols practice, and armo
recalling that used by the clans Of feuda
days.
That form of wrestling known as jiu
jitsu Is also quite popular with the ex
patriate youths of the Empire of tn
Rising Sun. Two of them, students a
Harvard iaszoo Yasi and c. Yokoyama
have developed the sport along new an,
original lines, and are giving instruction
in it and exhibitions
The chief social organization of the Jap
anese in New York is the Hinode club, o
h INl