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Show 20 XV J n s~ w r fo~rn rly l d o b 1' v th s long s a p rson graduated from 11 th hi=th~ ·t n ituti of 1 ning, h would s curing good soci l standing. This was in d tru to certain degree. At present, however, even in Japan, where th unemplo!'ffient roblem is sever , the notion is o en to question. To begin with, I think the concept was wrong. We Japanese have buried within us, a legacy from the feudal days--an idea of making too much of the government and too little of the people. Regardless of whether the family was rich or poor, the Japanese in Japan wanted their sons to become salaried workers, thereby increasing their chances of going to Tokyo rather than staying in the country. The educated did in fact leave the country, while the uneducated remained there. Thus, an unnatural society developed in Japan: while on the surface the nation made progress by leaps and bounds, the society of the ordinary people lagged behind by fifty to a hundred years compared to the Western World. I am told that this is the gist of what Mr. Kazutami Ukita declared. Not surprisingly, it appears that the intellectual standard of the ordinary people of Japan is actually rather low, generally speaking. This has been the shortcoming of Japan for a great many years. In our present society, well-educated persons must keep company with ordinary farmers, by all means. The same goes for the communities of the Japanese here in the United States. Quite a number of Japanese have lived here and are college graduates, and if most of them had remained here and become leaders, our communities would have become much improved and expanded. (8/12/28) XVI It is lamentable to note that, to the contrary, up to now nearly all of the educated among us have returned to Japan, thus leaving the Japanese society here without the leadership that could have been provided. On the brighter side, however, I think thi~ |
