Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 268, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1913 — Women in Japan. [ARTICLE]

Women in Japan.

/Japan controverts ' some western Meas as to woman's sphere, for in the province of Shlma, on the south eoast of the island empire, women are the sterner sex, and not only do most of the field work but are also employed as divers. - Stripped to the waist, they enter the water at all seasons except during the coldest months of the winter, remaining under water sometimes fpr over a minute, and fish up shellfish and tengusa (a kind of seaweed), which they place in a small net carried by each diver at the girdle. These female divers are extremely hardy. The life Is, however, a trying one, and the constant exposure causes those engaged in It to become very coarse in appearance and to age quickly.