Being Redrafted: Popularizing the Services Tokio, May 31.
"Whatever the complexion of the 'Ministry that may come into power in succession to. the present. Govment, it is the purpose of the military' authorities to lay before it 'a recommendation that the system of national education should be thoroughly revised," says Gen, Yamanashi, the former Minister of War, writing in the columns of the Kokumin."
"Japan," he explains, "has carried out: her plan of military retrenchment in accordance with the post-Washington Conference _demands and is now in process of re-drafting her scheme of national defence.
"There is nothing however, in the trend of world affairs to the military retrenchment is anything" but idle talk, and it would appear that the real reduction of military forces is not at the present time a practicable proposal.
"America," he says, "though democratic in her form of government, ix extremely nationalistic in her actions. While some of her leaders fare advocating further armament imitation and would like to see the military strength of the Powers: curtailed, the advantage of citizen camps is not lost sight of, and efforts are being made to spread a knowledge of military principles among the people in general.
Education on Military Lines, span, too, should see to it that! military retrenchment and the con-Sequent loss of efficiency in one direction should find some compensation in another, and it is with that in view that the war department chiefs mean to push their idea of revising the national system of education along military lines."
Tt may be said to be this idea! that has: prompted the late both in military and to "Popularize the Opportunity has been taken of more than one occasion to make the army and the navy better known to the general public.
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