Abstract
In my first report I discussed the causes of emigration based on statistical data alone. This, my second report, deals with the causes that led to emigration of villagers from the southern coast of the Kii Peninsula, based on 432 replies received to questionaires addressed to the villagers, the results of which are given in the accompanying Table.
My conclusion, as this Table shows, is that the villagers in this section of the country are stimulated, or encouraged, to emigrate upon witnessing the return, temporary or permanent, of emigrants from their own village or from adjacent villages, after having made a success abroad.
Emigration from this part of Japan is, therefore, not through rea-sons of poverty, but to the cause just mentioned.
