FLYING IN JAPAN.

Colonist, Volume LXII, Issue 15307, 21 February 1920, Page 2

FLYING IN JAPAN.

WEALTHY PEOPLE "TAKE TO

'AViATiOA1

Trcalthy men in Japan have turned to air-planing as a sporfc. Many or t.iose who made fortunes during the far in majiuiacturing munitions and 'funding ships are- neglecticg their motor cars to doyote time to skimming tin-ough the air. The Japanese Government is encouraging the innovation in every way, for it is realised that the mure persons who indulge in the. pasiime the greater will be the prospects or_ progress in aviation in the island iS-iUgduiii.

.lapauose have a natural leaning to-v.-nvd aviation, for. Jiire the Chinese, IVV 3- :! l'V Spoilt kite fiiers, youiw ana oid indulging i n the sport.' Largo kiteHyng^ounuunenta ;ire Jiold, and contosxs L;]Ko,piace in which the fliers compete ror prizes awarded by judges by a ponusyatom that is hard for aii Occicer.tai to understand.- ---') . nviatJ°n most of the maciiines • UCtj:. ! avf /)ecn °£ foreign make, but it i-5 er.pectod that the honie production r*u\ vernal soon both the Government clomniid raid that for leereatioiial pur-