JAPAN SEEKING NEW MARKETS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2812, 1 July 1916, Page 9

JAPAN SEEKING NEW MARKETS

A TOUR OF THE WORLD. . "With a view to establishing a better policy to retain- the extension of. the markets abroad for Japanese manufactures during and after the war, the Government has organised a, large commission, whose function it is to investigate -the conditions of the markets overseas as affected by tho war, or the possible changes in the world economic sj-s----tein under the influences of the war," says a recent issue of the Japan "Times'." '"During the present fiscal year tho members oT the commission will be dispatched to India, the South Sea Islands, Australia, Europ/an countries, North and South America, and Canada, and they will, in conjunction with tne Japaneso Consuls there, carry out the most elaborate programme of investigations. To British India, China, and French InctoChina, for instance, Mr. Yukijiro Shibasalci will be dispatched. He is quite equal to the work assigned to him. having been for many years Director of the Nagasaki Higher Commercial School. "The Dutch Indies, Australia, aud New Zealand will be visited by Mr. Kyoji Ukiln v who is also the right person for tho task assigned, for he has been in close touch with commcrcinl and industrial' activities in those parts for many years l»st in his capacity of Consul at Batavia. In clear, countries investigations will be conducted for the time being bv the Consuls stationed therein, Consul KumazaEi taking- chaTge of investigations in tho United States, ConsulGenoral Tata in Canada and Consul Yamnzaki in Great Britain. France will be placed within the sphere 'of Consul Kijima's supervision at Lyons, where he is stationed, in tho centre of the French , silk industry, in which Japan is most interested. Russia comes, under Consul Hirata at Moscow for a similar reason. Latin America is to bo investigated by Consuls Matsumura and.;Mori, who nre now tho chiefs of the Consulates at San Paulo and Lima respectively."