Que JAPANESE Porceatton Prowsa.—ree R Crocker. "Allen & Unwin, London. in trying to settle the affairs of the, recalcitrant We "tu reflecting over the national implications of 'The great problem in the future of Japan is her ability to a the extended - territory' she "needs for the eolotization of her surplus "population, Korea and Formosa have proved. poor outlets for' the coverflow;. Sakahalin is unsuited for any but the most hardened Nordic; the limited resources. of Manchuria ricultaral in the main—have ceased to attract th generation, who demand facility for earning: a living in a "refine way—not: that there is ever anything unrefined about agriculture, On the face of things it would appear that the only solution lies in eventual appeal to the god of. war, That prospect, is alarming repugnant to all who have. the interests of the civilized world at heart, but, like most distasteful things, it must be faced, Por the ti present, however Japan feels about. ity-there is mo "doubt that. her hands are full. With a rebellious Korea to watch, a determined Russia to checkmate, end a semi-united China to contend with, she cannot for a long time to come out on any scheme of far-reaching eonqui 'Mr, Crocker presents an ingenious analysis of the factors—such the inescapable tradition that calls for male heirs in abundance—that influence the birth-rate, and goes thoroughly into the vexed question of Japan's ultimate ability to raise' enough rice to satisfy her everevgrowing population, Her ability to reorganize industrially and economically he considers @ corol-"dary to this agricultural conundrum, On the ice question, he reaches the conclusion, which is shared by. all who have' knowledge of the circumstances, that only a change dificult' if not " impossible hange—ot national diet," consequent upon revision in agricul:
methods, can remove. the of numbers, While advaneing the theory that were all contact with the outside world suddenly gut off there would be no actual starvation in Japan to-day and probably none for some years to come, he. says "Japan's future will be one of ing ie "ngorts "nes. the future. of agree consuming. it
is interwo the life of the count relyed. Can the changes elite of the count Emigration to allen count "he ates "definitely dows nek promise even a tomporany panacea in view of the few porte of the World in which Japanese are. welcome, Only North East Borneo, the South Pacife Islands, fand' part of Brazil are, he. says, pen to ther, which is' prest th extensive and suitable" colonies, with' Inhabitants." willing "to ruenable under the lag of" the Rising Sun, are imperative. within the next fifty yours, The 60 rullions tonday, he makes "a Japanese Government offelal declare, wil have grown to. 108. millions by 1006. "Of what use, therefore, in the absence of such colonies, would emigration. to alien counttiee be Seeing that the few available out= lets could assimilate no more. than thin trickle of the overflow?
As regards the - international implications of Japan's problem, hho" questions whether she will be able to stand alone and comes bade {Yo the subject of war as a solution. "ey" ne states, "Japaiete public opinion. demands certain. course of action' in foreign policy and nother Power regards that action invasion of its own rights, here can be no. other arbitrament between. their claim. than that of war" Having got tid-of that by means delectable mouthful, proceeds to. theorize on the doubt-Fal prospects for safeguarding world' peace. Provided there is 10 Contict in the interim, he speculates, Stee, on conditions twenty or thirty Yeats hence. While' there. is itie new about what he. presupposes {his connection, itis worthy of ea {ul consideration by those who temporarily lost sight of the East hi paramount the state stilt characterizes so wide a dan tain of foreign: relation hips, and of erecting peace-provid-"machinery, that can determine will have As things are not foolish to plexed and an alliance between taly and Germany" and my group, Italian foreign Central and. Eastern recent years is of high "The "Nationalist par-many" would welcome 3 rapprochement with Italy, What to" prevent an ete to allay profound anxiety over what is, when all is said and done, th storm-centre of an already overcrowded world.—H.1.0,
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