'The gist of the article is appended. Conditions have greatly changed in' the Pacific islands since I last visited them 22 years ago. I was both surprised and delighted by what I saw fof the development of Japanese acy tivities is these sea-girt areas, 'The Pacific islands under Japan' mandatory rule consist of groups: containing a vast number of small) Islands. 'The 60,000 Japanese living there outnumber the natives themselves, 'There are 40,000 Japanese residents on the islands of Saipan, 'Fenian and Lota, in the Mariana' jationship between China and Japan fu cordance with the new situation jin East Asia, namely:
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fas been Importing "the necessary Bauxtte from Java, and" Grovee, that from the former being "used tua it In Formosa run by electrletty From the Lake sutsugetsuden hydrociveteie station, Pane low-content alumina rae tie tine approximately' 0.9 per cent. required arschaias who Sanaa a. Now, itt, however, fae attained. the necessary degree Fishing Industry gempetion and indicriminatory"treat=
The comment is here justified that In the Japanese- coupled regions no [such equal footing obtains, nor does the practice of the said free prin= ciples exist.
Proposed Economic The fore-given points represent the blue-print of Japan's proposed economic hegemony over China. remains to be seen whether this rigid plan would ft in ultimately with the world pattern. In the first place, Japan has not succeeded, as yet, in annihilating the Chiang Gov-fernment, who may receive a fresh Tease of life in the west and south west of China, where new means of communication are being established with the outer world for the conduct lof trade and the acquisition of arms. Nor have the Japanese by any means achieved the so-called "ce-operation" much harped-upon.
It is more than likely, in view of the firmer grouping of the three {totalitarian nations, that the de. mocratic Powers, in the interests of their own preservation, which is being threatened, would be gravitating towards each other. Whether they will be able to form a coalition in 00d time Is the important matter.
So the fate of the Japan-China economic bloc will depend as much fon foreign as domestic events. present, there is no finality reached in the Sino-Japanese hostilities, nor any in sight for a long time to come, with all the sequences that such may: Ihave in its train, The Japanese in the South Seas the said) are making great progress the fishing industry, this being one of the richest fshing-grounds in the world. Many of them, in small, vessels of 30 to 40 tons, go south to the Arafura Sea, between Australia and New Guinea, to get pearl shell Jand pearls in waters 20 to 40 fathoms deep. These venturers are supplying! two-thirds of the whole world's de-
All primary schools in the islands {for teaching the natives have Japan-_ ese teachers. All instruction in them is given in the. Japanese language. The native children, " therefore, all speak Japanese. I did not once hear native speaking in his own lan-Ruage to a Japanese. Before long} [Japanese only will be spoken in the islands, In this and other respects, con ditions are quite different from what! has taken place in Formosa. The! men of the Chamuro tribe, on Saipan, for example, have started a movement to obtain Japanese nationality' for themselves. Some of them have appealed to the Japanese officials to} be' allowed to enlist in the Japanese The first Japanese to emigrate to the islands were from Okinawa Islands, which are quite hot. They were sent by the South Seas Development Ca. because it was thought that, territories.
Nowadays, however, {from the Tohoku districts in northern, LJapan, where it is cold enough In winter, are being sent to the island and they seem to be gelling on well, This indicates that Japanese of north or south are equally adaptable to new climates, which will be of great advantage to them in emigrating to and developing other lands, Palao is still in process of development. In the jungle, where erocolurk in the streams, the Japanese colonists are hard at work cutting down trees and building huts, rather in danger of their lives, for the purpose of getting at the resources of the place. I asked some of them if they do not want to return to Japan. Younger ones showed a desire to visit their homeland again, Foreign Ports Visited When I visited Menado, in the Dutch East Indies island Celebes, 1 was struck by the perseverance of a Japanese named Nagano, 57 years of age. He Is operating a" rubber plantation there. As it is not permitted to employ Japanese labour In the Dutch East Indies, he employs natives to work the plantation. They are inclined to be lazy, but by strenuous efforts from early morning. till ate of night in the course of three years he has managed to develop a plantation of 2,450 acres, Next 1 visited Davao, in the There the land was red with virgin forest and nothing was done with it until the Japanese came. Tens of thousands of acres have been developed by them, They have succeeded in growing ex: cellent hemp. The Japanese "have pioneered only in Davao province. The natives" have imitated the Japanese in hemp-growing and now the rest of the island of Mindanao has been developed by the. natives. T thought this situation a true example of ce-existence and ce-prosperity Other lands should welcome Japanese more in this way, At one time some Japanese of American birth tried to develop land in Davao, But they could not stand the hardships of clearing the junql Finally they abandoned the attempt and fled to America. Thus there are Japanese and Japanese, It is certain that the work of the Japanese pioneers in the South Seas, even though it is unspectacular and scattered, will, as it progresses and spreads. "and ' accumulates, become eventually a powerful source of Japans's national strength. "They Share in carrying the Empire's de-stirly on their shoulders. In this spirit, go south, young people.
Americans shut out Japanese set-tiers. Evidently they think them not worthy to develop the waste places, should like to show such Americans iS] what we Japanese are doing in the Islands of the Pacific. do not think there has been any decline in the Japanese people's enthusiasm in supporting our forces at the front. Who knows but what crisis greater than any we have had yet may arise, The real strength of the Japanese will then be shown, people on earth can compare with the Japanese, Then, fortunately, we have plenty of food.' Scarcity of food is.a threat to national morale, but fortunately we do nol run that! risk, Our government has its anxieties from time to time, but it can fully trust our people. No doubt there are bad men even among the Japanese, but someone has said the Japanese are a gold mine. T think they are even better, as the percentage of precious metal is much higher. But we must be careful not to be taken unawares,
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