THE FUTURE OF JAPAN.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 106, 26 June 1911, Page 7

THE FUTURE OF JAPAN.

The Toko correspondent of the Londoh r “ , S'tJiidArd ,, . : ‘ wi'itdA 1 ! 1 “TM ft'“a" bold man who ventures, 1 to join the present volume of prophetic utterances with regard to the ambitions of Japan and the "future that 1 tjlie is carving out Toi J ’ herself in the 'Far blast. After the war with IliiSsia there was a diricoru of apprbheiitfioii that Japan itoiiM 1 not ho content to rest on her laurels, hut ' woiiW 1 he bound to push till 'to further conquests in the direction 'bf national ailtohoihy and tlie eoniplet'e supremacy of the Pacific. Looking back over the past live years,' one can coe in how" many way’s experience has justified anticipation. Japan to-day is undoubtedly .noro in dependent of the Occident than after the conclusion of the war, while her territorial jurisdiction has considerably increased. What was once only a commercial ambition, has taken on a political aspect as well. The inference is further confirmed by Japan's attitude on the tariff question and in relation to the new treaties now under negotiation with foreign countries. Efforts are being made to afford relief to the enormous annual increase of population by encouraging immigration to Korea and Manchuria, and further outlets are being opened in the Pacific Islands, .-south America, and Mexico, : an adventure which many think may he charging the future with danger. I'imo would fail to write ‘ 6i' the in•■.umcrahle ways in which Japan i*s how labouring to make herself commercially and 'industrially independent of Western countries. Everywhere Western machinery' is replacing native handicraft, and the time is fast approaching when Japan will he ihle to supply her own demands, as •.veil as those of China, for. all -the more common manufactured necessities. Now and then she orders a .bio from a foreign yard just to afford the latest model • for t her own miidors, and to give her iiavjal- architects and designers an opportunity while inspecting the construction.- of the foreign-built ship, of becoming more familiar with the latest methods of ship construction.”