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Japanese expansion to the best &
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In an article appearing in the "N.R.C." of the 29th January (morning edition), an account is given of a lecture by Count OTANI KOZOKI at Janka on the 31st votober,
1919.
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It appears that Count Kosesi resided in Celeben
for a considerable time, and the lecture was on the subject
of the expansion of Japan to the west and south.
That part of the lecture referring to China,
representing the expansion to the west, is considerably
a ridged, but refers to distinct ill-feeling between Japanese
and English traders in China.
Speaking of the Dutch East Indies as an area of expansion to the south the lecturer said that although he had
lived there for a considerable time, be still felt unable to
judge as an expert on the subject as he compared the state of the Dutch East Indies et present to that of Japan at the institution of the First Empire 2,600 years ago.
He accounted for this by referring to the dense Jungle which makes incursions into the interior practically
possible. Java alone is considered civilised and as
Otani bucossible as China, for which reason Conat Kozoei wishes to
jiscuss that island principally.
For agricultural purposes he states there is no further field of operations for Japanese expansion, but a wrestion to buy sad cultivate such vortions of the island be have already been partly cultivated by the natives. A
emerison, however, drawn between the density of the on-
tion of Japan and Javo, in which that of Java was found to
ir Freater than Japan, made the lecturer wonder that much o