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Famine in Japan

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Feb 8, 1906

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 83, No. 6.

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Famine in Japan

OWING to the failure of the rice crops in the northern provinces of Japan through drought, a million of the peasants are on the verge of starvation. In order to obtain food, children are being sold for a few shillings. Many of the people are stealing horses, that they may subsist upon horse flesh, while others are living upon baked roots.