Tokyo, Mar. 6.
Exports of Japanese canned goods during 1096, totalling " ¥.92,810,000 showed a gain of 68 per cent. ove the previous year. not "include" direct shipments of Uinned" salmon from Kamcha waters, If these are counted, Japan' exports towed. ¥.113,822 000, gain of, 102 per cent, over 117.
There was, however, a sharp decline of exports of canned goods 10 North America, formerly one of t biggest buyers. Here Jepan's tra fell off ¥.9,728,000 from 1937, prine cipally in a decline of exports. canned crab and tuna.
This, loss was partially counter acted by a big boom in the exports fof salmon and salmon-trout to. England, which gained by ¥.13,539,000—Reuter.
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