JAPAN ALERT

Evening Post, Volume XCI, Issue 150, 26 June 1916, Page 8

JAPAN ALERT

DELEGATES TO TOUR WORLD.

"With a view to establishing a better policy to retain the extension of the markets abroad for Japanese manufactures during and after the war, the Government has organised a large trade commission whose function it is to investigate the conditions of the markets overseas as affected by the war, or the possible changes in the .world economic system under the influences of the war/ sa,ys a recent issue of the Japan Times.

"During the present fiscal year the members of the commission will be despatched to India, the South Sea Islands, Australia, European countries, North and South America, and Canada, and they will, in conjunction with the Japanese Consuls there,' carry out the most elaborate programme of investigations. To British India, China, and French Indo-China, for instance, Mr. Yukijiro Shibasaki will be despatched. He is quite equal to the work assigned to him, having been for many years Director of the Nagasaki Higher Commercial School. "The Dutch Indies, Australia, and' New Zealand will be visited by Mr. Kyoji Ukita, who is also the right person for the task assigned, for he has been in close touch with commercial and industrial activities in those pa-rts for many years past in his capacity of Consul at Batavia. In clear countries investigations will be conducted for the time being by the consuls stationed therein, Consul Kumazaki taking charge of investigations in the United Sta-tes, Consul-General Yata in Canada, and Consul Yantazaki in Great Britain. France will be placed within the sphere of Consul Kijima's supervision at Lyons, where he is stationed, in the centre of the French silk industry, in which Japan is most interested. Russia comes under Consul Hirata at Moscow for a similar reason Latin America is to* be investigated by Consuls Matsumura and Mori, who are now the. chiefs of the Consulates at San Paulo and Lima respectively."