The Foundations of Japan - Notes Made During Journeys Of 6,000 Miles In The Rural Districts As - A Basis For A Sounder Knowledge Of The Japanese People by J.W. Robertson Scott
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adjoining capital, with the face of nature hidden by a brick wall,
neglected by an overworked clergyman, regarded as a mere machine by an avaricious employer, the factory operative turned to the public house, the prize ring or the cockpit." [145] See Appendix XL. [146] Number of factory workers, a million and a half, of whom 800,000 are females. For statistics of women workers, see Appendix XLI. [147] The Minister of Commerce has himself stated that the sericultural industry is rooted in the dexterity of the Japanese countrywoman. [148] This section of the Chapter was written in 1921. [149] In Japan in 1918 there were, per 1,000, 505.2 men to 494.8 women. [150] Of the workers under the age of fifteen in the 20,000 factories, 82 per cent. were girls. The statistics in this paragraph were issued by the Ministry of Commerce in 1917. [151] For sketches of women and children (with a chain between their legs) harnessed to coal wagons in the pits, see _Parliamentary Papers_, vol. xv, 1842. "There is a factory system grown up in England the most horrible that imagination can conceive," wrote Sir William Napier to Lady Hester Stanhope two years after Queen Victoria's accession. "They are hells where hundreds of children are killed yearly in protracted torture." In Torrens's _Memoirs of the Queen's |
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