JAPAN'S DESTINY.

Auckland Star, Volume 304, Issue 304, 23 December 1926, Page 14

JAPAN'S DESTINY.

«A PREDOMINATING NATION." AIM TO BECOME WORLD MASTERS. (By Telegraph.—Special to " Star.") CHRISTCHURCH, this day. Professor J. Macmillan Brown, Chancellor of the University of New Zealand, told an interviewer yesterday that the fact which most impressed him during his recent tour of the East was the wonderful progress being made by the Japanese, whom he characterised as "the most efficient nation that has ever come into the arena of history." "The Government," he said, "looked after every phase of the people's life and the socialistic idea of the Government as business manager of every concern had been incorporated there, the Government founding new industries and in every way guiding the people in education. Tne Japanese were the most enthusiastic people in the world. They were never idle and that was what was going to make- them a predominating nation. They were as united as the Chinese are for the present disintegrated. They have armed efficiency and are anxious to become world masters-," continued the professor. "If Japan could become wealthy—it is a poor country at present in spite of the great money-making during the war—it would be a masterful country indeed." "Japan's power lies in the fact that its politics are its religion. Politics in Japan are not like the politics of other nations where two or three or four parties are fighting. There are two or three political parties in Japan, but they are all guided by the one idea—that Japan is the sacred nation and that their emperor is directly descended from the gods. No nation in the world with any control of a region has ever been guided by such a rule. "The Japanese can call up an army of 4,000,000 at a moment's notice because after every successful war they have doubled their army and navy and those four million men will fight as one

inspired by the sacred cause. Australia is wasting money if it is spent on any military stronghold but the Singapore base. If Japan secured Malaya it would be only one step further to Australia."