One great drawback Japan is subject. Yo in times like the present the over-reliance that the Japanvse, like other Eastern people, place on officialdom. The basic rea-gon for this is the family system which has its place in that other bixget family, the nation and the state blind belief, an excellent one mes, in the omnipotence of govern. mets; the pavernalistic rule which forms the bell-tock on which Orienial social systems are based; and the Inck of initiative, due to sup-cession of individualism. Whenever ffficultios arise, the party in trouble has always turned to the Government to pull it out of the mess. A case in point ix thy silk trade the vice business where the Government buys up surplus stocks, takes these off the market, eveates an artificial shortage and forces prices up. A few benefit, but the general result of such palliatives is to make matters worse, This attitude of turning tothe! Government for assistance permeats all classes of the community and has been responsible for much of the present. state of affairs, The Government has. in the pasty come to the aid of big industries to-day, the semi-starvings workers ave asking that it do likewise in re-yard to them. The unfortunate fact, however, is that the Government riot able to do very much as the Bayanese Government to-constituted. The central coffers are very Tow, and the Government is ce short of money, duc to a big fallimg-off in tax receipts and customs duties, that it is on the horns of dilemma with regard to the next:
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