An Economic Future for Japan

P^TT HE post-war development of Japan is a matter of concern to many people, especially to those of nations touching on the Pacific Ocean. Japan has made claims of population pressure, for more food, for mineral resources, and for many raw materials. She has claimed a great desire to improve her country and people and the rest of the Orient. Japan has been lauded for her ambition, astuteness, and for her nice, dainty ways, and cursed for her stupidity, treachery, unfriendliness, and brutality. That Japan has been misguided and, in her modern program and methods, is not modern or civilized seems revealed in the feudalistic spirit of her totalitarian government. That her vision of what is best for Japan involves the subjugation, slavery, or annihilation of other equally important and for millenniums more cultured nations is obvious both from her statements and her activities since 1930. The repeated question, What can Japan do?, particularly for herself, has been given several answers which will be briefly summarized. A careful survey must be made and an answer found. No doubt any solution suggested should take stock of what is done to Japan in the peace treaties. Such stock-taking at present is certainly dealing in futures. Yet why delay longer an analysis of possibilities for Japan when stripped of all she has taken by aggression in the last forty or more years

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