PROGRESS OF JAPAN
RAPID WESTERNISATION AGGRESSIVE AIMS DISCOUNTED. , fPEB United Press Association) WELLINGTON, July 23. Major Kirk, chairman of Dominion headquarters of the Soldiers’ Civil Peestablishment League, returned to-day from a visit to the East, including Japan. He said that, if his opinion was worth anything, he did not believe there was any such thing as a Japanese menace. If Australia and New Zealand provided reasonable defences and remained within the British Empire and continued to settle the land with increasing population, there would be nothing to fear. He advocated a better understanding of this wonderful people. Japan merited great credit 'for her attainments. In the bustle of modern life the national kimono was giving place to Western dress. There was a huge demand for powder and rouge, and it might not be so very long before the clatter of the wooden slipper would be hoard no more. Ho emphasised Japan’s great advance in education, with its national policy of enlightenment and progress, not merely as regards the mind, but in regard to bodily health and welfare.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22631, 24 July 1935, Page 10
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