GRAVE PROBLEM

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 19 August 1933, Page 7

GRAVE PROBLEM

JAPAN’S INCREASING POPULATION

EMPLOYMENT DIFFICULTY SOCIAL UNREST (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 19th August, 9.35 a.m.) BANFF (Alberta), 18th August. According to information presented today to the Institute of Pacific Relations in a paper by Professor Teijiro Uyeda, of Tokio University of Commerce, Japan's population problem cannot be solved by a decrease in the birth fate, or by birth control. “Merely taking into consideration the constitution of the present population of Japan,” Professor Uyeda declared, “groups constituting the working population will expand rapidly during the next twenty years. The number of the working population in 1950 will be larger than that of 1930 by ten millions. Additional employment must be provided for at least half the number of this increase, or 200,000 every year. The gravity of the problem facing Japan and the world after the next 20 years can hardly be over-estimated. The social unrest which has come to play sucli an important role in Japan is mainly due to this disparity between the population and gainful employment.”

AT ENGLAND’S EXPENSE A paper presented by the British delegation representing the Royal Institute of International Affairs, stated: “The exports of Japan’s textile industry are increasing rapidly at the expense of England. Japan at this stage is more interested in securing a firm hold on new markets than on the markets she controls at present. In Lancashire, on the other hand, the manufacturers’ attitude to trade is inseparable from considerations of costs and profits. Furthermore, the Japanese Government is more willing to give aid to tho textile industry because of its importance in Japan’s international balance of trade.”