Spheres of Interest Asked By Chamber of Commerce Tokyo, June 27. The Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry plans to call upon the Government to divide the "yen bloc" into spheres of economic and industrial activity, emphasizing in each sphere those types of industry best fitted economically to the region. A resolution to this effect has been adopted by the chamber.
It maintains that in order for each region of the "yen bloc" to function most effectively and for the whole "bloc" to be mutually ce-operative, the following points must be taken into account:—
1. Industries should be placed in the region best suited from the standpoint of adaptability.
2 Industries should be situated according to considerations of defence and the ability of each region to maintain and support them.
3. Overlapping of investments must be eliminated and care taken to avoid competition between industries in the different regions, both at the present time and in the future With these points in mind, the Chamber hopes that the Government will speedily establish a system of individual zones suited to the "real conditions" existing in the economic "bloc" formed by Japan, Manchoukuo and China.—Reuter.
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