AMERICAN MONOPOLY IN JAPAN

Wanganui Chronicle, 24 February 1947, Page 5

AMERICAN MONOPOLY IN JAPAN

BRITAIN HAS LITTLE SAY (Special N.Z.P.A. Correspondents London, Feb. 2.'. “The American policy in Japan aims at Japanese recovery which will offer a maximum market and minimum competition to her own. General MacArthur does not intend Japanese workers to have a say in the matter.” 1 There are the comments by the I “New Statesman and Nation,’’ . prompted by the remarks of Mr. Hitofumi Ito, former Japanese Ambassador to Poland. He is reported to have remarked that Britain was Indifferenr to the Far East and suggested that she was in danger of becoming little more than a name for the younger generation in Japan. “Ito’s speech,” comments the journal, “reflects the results of a year of American occupation, for, whilst there is an Allied Council for Japan meeting fortnightly in Tokio and the Far Eastern Commission working in Washington, it is the Americans who have assumed what virtually is a monopoly of control over Japanese affairs. Industrially, this has resulted in Japan already so far recovering her textile position that she will soon dominate the vast Asiatic market.

“The American programme allows for 67 per cent of Japanese exports in future to manufactured textiles, compared with 23 per cent in 1939.”