Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1895 — Labor in Japan. [ARTICLE]

Labor in Japan.

While the wages of the Japanese laborers appear small—sl4 per month—they receive, in addition to this, house rent, the attendance of physicians when they are ill, and each Is given a bit of ground upon which he raises almost all hls food. They require little clothing or fuel In that warm climate, and the thrify at the expiration of their three years’ contract return to their own country with the greater part of their earnings, which, In Japan, among meni of their class, constitutes quite a comfortable fortune.