What he is seeking to do—and time must elapse before honest judgment can be pronounced on his effort—is to re-mould Japan into q still more strongly centralized State in all phases of national life, but a central Jized State in which the public will and the public wish will function Jadeqately "and efficiently. Because Japan believes sincerely that both world and internal conditions demand the Empire be placed ona semic wartime basis, thig policy is the one Juround which all others will be made to pivot, be they economic, political for whatnot.
I had intended in this article to present the present extremely interesting and signifeant economic trends and developments along this line, but space now prevents and they will have to await later treatment, What has been done here Is to give, somewhat sketchily, the political stua-Yon and even more the planned re-Hfcrmation of the political and govern rental structure under way In this Empire, primarily designed to meet the needs of the times as conceived by present-day Japan, chiot of which is the achievement ofa semi-wartime basis so strong that no actual or potential foe will be able successfully to challenge the nation.
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