Persons Employed . Official figures show 207,536 employees and 
60,452 employers engaged in processing of marine products in 1940 in 
Japan. Approximately half of these were employed hut part-time in this 
work (Table 42). The largest number of these were fishermen who also 
fenghg®*! in simple processing — the drying or salting of fish and the 
drying of seaweed. 
TABLE 42 
Persons Engaged in Processing Marine Products, 1936 - 1940 
Baployers 
Employees 
Male 
Female 
Total 
Principal Occupation 
1936 
24,924 
53,658 
52,018 
105,676 
1937 
24,441 
54,965 
54,263 
109,228 
1938 
24.375 
52,009 
49,010 
101,019 
1939 
24,374 
50,867 
49,771 
100,638 
1940 
26,124 
50,636 
54,914 
105,520 
Subsidiary Occupation 
1936 
40,294 
36, 908 
69,501 
106,409 
1937 
36,863 
35,175 
65,607 
100,782 
1938 
36, 953 
34,356 
65,997 
100,353 
1939 
35,580 
32,158 
64,701 
96 f 859 
1940 
34,328 
32, 662 
69,354 
102,016 
Source: Toyo Keisal^Nenkan , 1943. 
Although breakdown by type of processing is not available, one 
source gives the number of persons in Japan proper working in canneries 
(all types, but fish canning is a principal type of canning in Japan) 
as 20,700 in 1938 and the number producing aquatic products as 17,400. 
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