FOSTERING JAPANESE TRADE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 72, 29 June 1916, Page 4

FOSTERING JAPANESE TRADE.

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 Japanese Government has, says the Times of Japan, organised a large trade commission whose function it is to investigate the conditions of the markets overseas as affected by the war, or the possible changes in the world economic system under the influences of the war. The paper goes on to say: “The Dutch Indies, Australia, and New Zealand will be visited by Mr Kyoji Ukita, who is also the right person for the task assigned, for he has been in close touch with commercial and industrial activities in those parts for many years past in his capacity of Consul at Batavia. In clear countries investigations will be conducted for the time being by the consuls stationed therein. Consul Kutnazaki taking charge of investigations in the United States, Consul-General Yata in Canada, and Consul Yamazaki in :Gre,at,s,ritain.E s France will be placed within the sphere of Consul Kijima’s h aypo.ryisiop as Lyons, where he is stationed, is.; the 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 be investigated by Consuls Matsumura and Mori, who are now the chiefs of the Consulates at San Paulo and Lima respectively.”