Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-04-03
A JAPANESE INVASION.
Meaning of Little Army of Students
 at Our Universities.

An English university profeSSoI who was recently delivering a series of lectures at a great American uni versity remarked the presence of several attentive Japanese students.
 q have lectured or attended lec- lures at universities in five or six European countries during the last few years,'' he said, "and always there were one or two Japanese faces in the audience. The Japanese are the constant element in the educa- tional Aux. Wherever there is any thing to be learned you, will find your Japanese student sitting with serious face, steadily absorbing. And from all four corners of the globe the Jap anese are taking back to the home country to-day the latest knowledge in all branches-the best thought in the world"
 This general outpouring of Japan csc students has been quietly going on under subsidies from the mikado's government for the last 40 years, and it has been particularly directed of late toward the United States, where according to the best statistics ob- tainable, there are now at least 300 Japanese studying at various univer- sities and colleges. These students form about 1.2 per cent of the Jap anese population of the United States a percentage of students unequaled in any other foreign element in ouI population. Of our general popul1- tion only one quarter of 1 per cent or about 200, 900, are students in uni versailles. colleges or professional schools. -..a
 The Japanese students in America are significant of Japan's worldwide hunt for efficiency. The Japanese government spends. upward of s150,- 900 a year in sending it's best stu dents to America and Europe to learn the latest education methods and tC learn the latest education methods and to garner the most advanced re- suits of the scientific research of the world. There are about 150 of these subsidized students studying in va- rious countries to-day, and each year they carry back to their native land not only great stores of scientific knowledge. but also the latest infor- nation about manufacturing pro processes of all kinds. Each student has a maximum allowance from the government of $500 a year, and in special eases this may be increased by as much as STJ0 more for touring oI special study. In all cases an allow ance Of S1O0 is made for outfit which probably accounts for the fac that every Japanese student owns fr0ck coat and a silk hat. In addition S35g is allowed for travelling ex- penses each way to students who gC to study in the western states. and Si90 to those who go to our eastern universities.
 This little company Of seekers for efficiency is supplemented by large army of Japanese who go to foreign universities at their own expense either with the idea of returning to Japan with the additional advantage that foreign education gives. or of training themselves for special occu- pations in the country in which the. study. Theze men and women form tle greater part of the Japanese uni versity students In America. Some Of them are sci0ns Of wealthy Jspan ese families who will go back | Japan to conduct great eommerefs enterprise An example of these f. Enki RI. son Of one OF the weaIthiss three famiIiss in Japan His grand father was the Rockefeller of th ForuOsan oil trade. Mr Ri is study ing foreign trade business orEaniza tion. accounting. o0umsrcfzI law snr economies at New York university
 4 large proportion oF the students however. is drawn from the poorer classes. and fregEeHtIy they toll al 8ze form of manual labor during the daT ia order to take courses al 81s university at night A number