JAPANESE GIRLS TO VISIT JAPAN

Three Japanese girls, born and reared in the United States, today were on their first voyage to Japan aboard the N.Y.K. liner Heian Maru. They are Miss Tamaye Hirata, who will visit a sister, employed in the American legation in Tokyo; Miss Ayako Koura and Miss Kiyoye Koura, en route to Japan to spend some time with relatives.

They told passenger traffic representatives of the N.Y.K., they would take lessons in Japanese from officers of the Heian so they could speak the language of their homeland more fluently.

Miss Fukuko Hamada, also born and reared in the United States, who has been in Japan, sailed on the Heian. She will visit a sister, employed in the office of the American consul in Osaka. The vessel sailed from Seattle Friday afternoon.

The N.Y.K. liner Hikawa Maru is due here at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning from the Orient with fifty-two passengers and 2,500 tons of cargo. She had sixty-eight passengers for Vancouver, B.C. The Hikawa will berth at the Great Northern Dock.