Unemployment and Prices Soaring: Aftermath of the Earthquake Faom Ove Oww: Constsroxoeey:
Tokyo, Apt: 16:
Japan is- changing as day succeeds day, changing' so fast that, even in this dynamic age she "is going. at a speed thet' can be fairly called brealeneck, without being guilty of exaggeration:
These changes have been forced fon her, rather than: sought by her, jand the changes*have ushered in very trying times for the most progressive of the-countries on the Fire and famine, earthquake and political discontent, collapse of well-entrenched commercial estjabliskments and a toboggan-like iendeney of the yen to lose value we tended to' bring about a disgruntled clement. whose sulkiness has been materially increased by the almost insurmountable obstacles encountered in the way of securing employment. With the nation taxed to the hilt, with the cost of living mounting higher and higher, the authorities are in a quandary as to how to restore some sort of political and mental equilibrium to the: people. The authorities know full well that anything like stable thought o: that frame of mind which wil spur' the nation: to a new' renaissanec—whether this rennistance literature, in arts, in science o-religion—is: impossible until life ceases to be: the hard problem it and until the majority of the people can be weaned from the hand-to-mouth living they: art undergoing at the present: tinto; chiefly as of a combination: of hard circumstances:
The material calamities JJapan underwent through quake fand fire and food: were faced' in 'a manner that would do credit to: any' other people on the face of the globe. Factmp the' trouble bravely, however, is w different: thing" frou] Dringtnge matters biek- to" norntal, Jand before one worry lis: beet! tackled; another has arise to.
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