Tokyo, Jan, 6. morning—the first held this year—the Finance Minister is understood to have expressed an optimistic view regarding the-prospects of economic recovery in the not distant future, Market conditions throughout the country were stated t> be markedly, brisker over the year end and was announced that various textile centres had increased their output by about 20 per cent.
The Finance Minister is also quoted as intimating that little concern was felt regarding the out flow of gold and specie and as. giving. fan assurance that. the economi depression would not. cause the Government. to deflect from its pre sent courss,—Reuter,
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