For various reasons, largely owing to the completion of re-armament programmes by different Powers, he considers. 1089 as a critical year, and suggests two methods, both of them excellent, by which Japan may pro pare to meet the crisis. One is the Immediate cultivation of genuine friendly relations with China, By this means there would be a. simultaneous improvement both in Japan's political relations with the United States and in her strategical position The second method action "against Japan's sea neighbours, especially of any. attempt at a naval "armament On this subject, his final advice pi Bt, Saute lat tat While the book cannot be considered as a profound study of inter national relations, "it can be con-
Adently recommended as the expr sion of the views held, in g less degree, by the dominant Japan, the fighting services. book has been translated from Japanese, and though the translation itself' entirely satisfactory; the style of thought' and expression is Sometimes a little incongruous to the English mind—ca
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