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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVIII, Issue 8042, 1 February 1906, Page 4

The Secret of Japan's Strength. The Booklovers' Magazine says on this point— The same diligent genius that enables iv landscape gardener in Japan to compass within a few square yards ol' land a forest, a bridge-spanned stream, a water-fall and lake, a chain of terraced hills, gardens of chrysanthemums, hyacinths, peonies and pinks, a beetling crag crowned with a dwarfed cjml'er, and through all the dainty park meandering paths, with here a shrine and there a dainty summer-house, has made it possible for the farmers of the empire to build up on less than 10,000 square miles of arable land the most remarkable agricultural nation the world has known. If all the tillable acres of Japan were merged into one field, a man in an auto mobile, travelling at the rate of 50 miles an hour, could skirt the entire perimeter ol arable Japan in 11 hours. Upon this narrow freehold .Japan has reared a nation of imperial power, which is determined to enjoy commercial preeminence over nil the world of wealth and opportunity from Siberia to Siam, and already, by force of arms, is driving from the shores of Asia the great est monarchy of Europe. The secret of the success of the little daybreak kingdom has been a mystery to many students of nations. Patriotism does not explain the riddle of its strength, neither can commerce, nor military equipment nor manufacturing skill. Western nations will fail fully to grasp the secret of the dynamic intensity of Japan to-day, and will dangerously underestimate the formidable possibilities of the greater Japan-the Dai Nippon—of tojpiorrow, until they begin to studv seriously the agricultural triumphs of that empire. For Japan, more seientlically than any other nation, past or present, has perfected the art of sending the roots of its civilization enduringly into the soil. Progressive experts of high authority throughout the Orient now admit that in all the annals of agriculture there is nothing that ever approached the scientilic skill of sunrise hus bandary. Patient diligence, with knowledge of chemistry of soil and the physiology of plants, have yielded results that have astounded the most advanced agriculturists in Western nations. Curious Advertising. Some of the Japanese tradesmen in the smaller towns of Nippon have a curious way of advertising their business. On their riglH forearms they tattoo figures—the shoemaker, a shoe; the woodcutter, an axe; the butcher, a cleaver. Underneath these emblems are such inscriptions as, " I do my work modestly and cheaply," or, " lam as good at my trade as most of my fellows," When they are looking for work they bare their arms, and walk about the street. The shark, which is so Abundant- in the waters of Central America, is to be utilized in commercial products. A company has been formed which converts sharks' fins into jelly and tinned soup, makes tine machinery oil from their livers, handsome leather equal to alligators from theiv skins, walking sticks from their backbones, and numerous articles from their jawbones and teeth.

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