Tokyo, Feb. 21.
The Ministry of Public Welfare to-day announced plans to make Japan physically fit.
Featured in the Ministry's am-bilious programme is a replica of the Nazi "Labour Service" for young men who have passed their conscription examinations, but had not yet been enlisted Gathered in camps, these youths will spend two to six months in doing public work and receiving intensive physical training.
Especial attention will be paid to the improvement of physical standards of the agricultural areas, where records of Army conscript examinations have recently shown rapidly declining health.
Vast sums will be expended by the Ministry for the construction of playgrounds, gymnasiums and swimming pools in every village in the land.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.