America and the Far Eastern Question

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IT JAPAN'S FOREIGN TRADE POLICY Broad Political Purpose Involved ? Japan's GeographIcal Position ? Its Relation To This Question ?Japan's Aspiration To Oriental Leadership ? Premises Of IndusTrial Control ? Political Domination Important ? EcoNomic Elements ? Competition To Be Met ? Oriental...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IT JAPAN'S FOREIGN TRADE POLICY Broad Political Purpose Involved ? Japan's GeographIcal Position ? Its Relation To This Question ?Japan's Aspiration To Oriental Leadership ? Premises Of IndusTrial Control ? Political Domination Important ? EcoNomic Elements ? Competition To Be Met ? Oriental Obstacles ? Japanese Methods ? Legitimate And IlleGitimate Methods Considered ? Their Application To Asia ? International Bearing ? A Hypothetical ExAmple? Japan And China?The Lion In Japan's Way ? Interest Of The West In This Problem. Probably no phase of Japan's post-bellum activities is more illuminating than the relation of the Government's foreign trade policy to her national ambitions and designs. This lends peculiar interest to the methods, in so far as they have found practical expression, which recently have been employed to promote Japanese industry and commerce throughout the East; for these methods are in themselves a revelation of national characteristics and point of view, and also are significant as indicating the fundamental trend of a broad political purpose. Economists who have made a study of the subject agree that Japan's geographical situation and natural resources inevitably will limit advancement of the nation in comparison with some others unless she manages to secure and retain a leading industrial position in the sphere of her probable influence. It may be that some Japanese statesmen, in projecting their imaginations into the future, havea vision of a revivified East under Nippon's leadership making an industrial conquest of the West, but it is not now feasible for this idea to take practical shape. If it ever should be possible, two things must first be brought about: industrial reorganization of the Orient, and the establishment of Japan in a pos...