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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1949.

A REVIEW OF JAPAN

Japan, now in the fifth year of occupation, is the sub- ject of the most intense con- cern in many quarters of the globe. The MacArthur re- gime is perhaps the most con- troversial of any post-war period in history."

Much has changed since 1945, and according to General Mae- Arthur he has succeeded in his Intention to destroy. the totali- tarian system previously in force, to exact a toll for past misdeeds, and to create a nation of people

By A Special Correspondent

place.

the

Measures were

ultra-

At the end of 1948, Washington cracked down hard on the econo- troft banke, was sent out to mie mess. Joseph Dodge, a De who will forever live a democratic Tokyo to read the riot act He party, decimated in Iast January's to end the feudal land system to

way of life.

Unbiased observers both agree and vehemently disagree with the SCAP leader regarding his fre quent public utterances on the success of his plans,

ordered the Japanese government time in 15 years) and to introduce to balance its budget (for the arst austerity measures to narrow the wide gap between exports and imports

The writer of this article is

settled The Japanese, who had voicing his own views, not neces sarily those of the "China Mail down cosily in the role of "comet- MacArthur intends to hand backed allies" of the Western demo- control of their own affairs pro- cracles, were profoundly shocked gressively to the Japanese, and that American democrats should

"democrats justifies the policy, drst, by de alk to Japanese that the continued pre- that way. sence of Allied troops in Japan "is

but rather to events and stances" elsewhere in the world, and secondly, by grandiloquent claims concerning

bloodless revolution that has been wrought

report!CE

has eventually been publish-Je to no fault of the action!

that

3.33

the

Bomb Damage Erased

four years have been equally

Dearly

.three

The middle of the road Socialist election and hopelessly divided since, is losing out to the twin extremes of concealed total tarianism of the right and open totalitarianism of the Communist

Secret Societies Emerge

Step

Good Morni

According to a local advertise-

ment

This autumn's New Look de- mands long loves....”

Biokes with small girl telands are obviously going to save money this season..

A report on the Evils of Gam- bling, just published, showg that

"Rumour has it that she is going to be strengthened this year with. some surprise packets," according to yesterday's softball report.

Jack-in-the-box hormones”

*

•

•

the

The score, I understand,

is

It didn't say whether it was

The 'celto Makes a bello- Soft and mello

And is most casily played by a bow-legged fella.

According to an authority on the subject, women public than speakers are more wordy

Then.

farms were being blueprinted breakneck speed. Everything was going to be "democratised" -from the Emperor to Yoshi- while factories remained idle for deference to American susceptibi-wars, Tokyo's red light district The nation was demilitarised want at them. The Japanese lities)

notorious "thought ||- government neglected to enforce control police as an additional A democratic constitution was rationing and price control ma- weapon for keeping labour in iis Fromulgated.

forced through the Diet to break chinery. General MacArthur, vou- fronted with the facts by alarmed As the situation new shapes, it up the Zaibatsu family combines

to purge militarists and aides, took the view that his head- would not be surprising if the nationalists: to reform the police;

in Supreme Commander one day quarters should not interfere

Ands himself forced into the posi- the educational system (greatest to emancipate women; to recast Japan's economic affairs.

tion of using American troops to

breeding ground of robots on curb Japanese workers, a develop earth; to guarantee workers the ment which would benefit no one right to form trade unions, to except the Communists

bargain collectively and to strike: money can be lost in more ways.

them won enabling Japan's downtrodden chant farmers to own the land Utopia was to be they tiled.

assembly-line. principle, created almost overnight on the Despite open obstruction and concealed sabotage by the conser. vatives in office some progress union was made. The trade

"-love large parties," said movement quickly enrolled, more | Myrtle. "They're so intimate. At ̈ The banned ultra-nationalistic than six million members. The small parties there is no privacy

farmers secret societies, which constitut- number of Japanese ed the main support for the Jap-owning their farms doubled-

from two to four million. Japan- In some parts of Africa anese army's plans for aggres- son before the war and which ese women began to take an in-young men of the tribe play ten-

The nis with oranges, today constitute Japan's militar-terest in public affairs. istic underground movement, are police tried hard to remember to by ed. From what we hear, it

actively crusading for the anni- be polite when addressed I was not Sir Patrick's fault

hilation of all corrupted persons citizens. A healthy curiosity dece all the time. The material changes in those and democrats as the first

veloped among many little pec-

Describing a visit of some troops that his findings were so long

in rebuilding the "real Japatos mok-rassie

ple about this thing called "de- Most of the

People began ask to its plant, a contemporary“ yes- withheld from those mem-

Members of the in Japan in the past four years striking.

questions and demanding terday said that after the tour bers of the Hong Kong public In public, General MacArthur of the B-29 fire raids that des-Chrysanthemum Flag Comrades ing

"the men took leave.”“” troyed

mution speaks of the Japanese

working

Association pledge their deter answers. who might be interested.

the Both in MacArthur's headquar- Not that there was any arduously to fabricate a citadel of Japanese homes have disappear- rnination to have revenge on ters at Tokyo and in the militars | French or Chinese

war enemy freedom from those imperishable ed. Eighty per cent of the

the glorification of the real hurry. No one who

One of these ultra-government teams up and down build-

societies, recently Japan, a host of earnest men and even moved. New matchbox"

nationalistic knows anything of the works drawn from the experience debris in Tokyo has been remperor."

of the

the ages. In private, he

The Ginza has

has the aim of uniting work along

women tailed to help the good ings fill the gaps.

formed,

and make the re- ings of the Colony expected more lyrical about what he con-

recommendations for ceises to be happening in Japan. been completely renovated. The all imperialist and nationalist or forms "stick" The fact that they

emphasizing that no other country population of Japan's capital, less ganisations in order to guard our town planning with

Declared its promoters did not always, realise the depth. than three million at the time of the surrender, is back to 5,700,000

in a manifesto: "Believing in the of the duplicity and opportunism eye to beauty, health and ever got so much democracy so

peacefully quickly and

true Japanese spirit, we will re- that lurked behind the smiles of convenience community

In a word, the Supreme Com- and, except for a continuing acute

but also Japan's ruling class was not their only Japan be enthusiastically ander believes in those perfect housing shortage, would be a mil-form not

fault; few of them had ever been would

foreign countries." welcomed by our civic lead-occupation statements issued by lion more.

his headquarters

In Japan's 87 other bombed These rightist organisations are in Japan before.

Few Know Rights However, ers.

while

cities it is the same story. By the spreading reports that the occupa cannot expect any material

beginning of this year the population authorities look upon ultra- tion of atom-bombed Hiroshima nationalistic propaganda as a de- results from the report, ex-

was almost back to the pre-war terrent to the growth of Com

do not have the faintest An Americam, has just won Ra cept in a few instances, it

No informed observer would

figure.

munism in Japan. does have considerable acade- question that the Japanese have

Today the Japanese people are, Faced with the increasing un-conception of the true meaning divorce on the grounds that his of democracy. Japanese still wife constantly criticised his travelled a long way since 1945.

on the whole, better off and better mic interest.

Pularity

of both occupation and of his cabinet, Pre-judge political issues not in the cooking Such differences of opinion as exist fed than most of the peoples of

Bloke- just returned from leave pediency or according to who is on the matter between SCAP and the Orient. But on an average of i mier Yoshida is pasang the buck light of any principles, but of X-

concern go General blandly giving-tha-orders. Most of them tells me about a notice he saw in in which the incurably about $23), a Japanese factory.

merely know rights they en- a London public-house "Whisky has 00

difficulty

The worker still has spportunistic Yamato race

constitation 3d. per nip. Tax. 1/8" been travelling.

balancing his household budget. fact is that in the strong line beloy, under the new Since VJ-Day, Japan has passed It takes 65 per cent of his income ing taken against labour in and the few who do, and demand

them, are in danger of being "So you wish to leave to get in the police registers as married, Mrs. Banks was saying phases.

filled. Few Japanese Workers

rkers ment which is setting the pace in

to her maid. "I hope you've con- *** "subversives". arly the removal of the Ser-

In the first, in 1945, the country have bought a suit since the war, the hope of ditching not only the

receive

In a word, Japan is rapidly re-sidered the matter seriously? but also Japan's one Commimists

becoming verting to type and

"Oh yes, ma'am, I have the vice establishments from the lay stunned by total defeat.

In 1848, saved from serious food those who do not block of land on either side

wearing their Meanwhile, Japanese industri- again a police state. And nine- mald assured: her "ree been to of General MacArthur's two, fortune tellers, and a clair- of Queen's Road This, in shortages by free American food work suit a year from their em-liberals.

uniforms. So imports which continue to this ployers are still

are alists are confronted they

With the tenths

unwieldy headquarters could pack voyant, and looked insign-book, point of fact, is the barrier day, the Japanese were breathing

Erumbling, and in zmarły cases financial problem of explaining up and go home tomorrow with- and dreamed on a lock of his hair, easily. TES cccupation

to the Communists. Japan's trade with a sterling area

and I've been to a medium and an against all worth-while re-more

"the

The Japanese nation is now en- that is critically short of dollars, out changing the trend

An American Advisory Group astrologist, and they all tell me organisation in Hong Kong. troops had been christened

visitors," and

and Japanese cities were (The police, for instance, molding special "days" to salute tering the fifth, and in many res-and the political problem of re- of, say, 300 civilian experts could to go ahead: I'm not one to marry

peets most dangerous, phase of its viving trade links with a Com give all the assistance now neces-reckless-like, maʼam." our gallant Allied friends.”

munist China zemains cool to By 1947, the Japanese had post-war history.

fen soll die their own Japan

and civic economic

e with their boots. ideologically and poli- Japan that is an economic ap- say to help the Japaness run

affairs—hich the canny re-l of But usually one boot, is on reached the conclusion that the tically almost back to 1931, when pendage of the United States.

In the past six months, Japan's dowies are fashioning to their the accelerator Caited States Leeded them as the extreme rightists seized con-

have much as they needed the Ucated trol of the government and tossed export markets

shrunk co

own liking anyway!

Spart Foreign contracts from that assistance, the occupa States, and Japanese industrialists

moderate policies and air four calamitously.

A pavement artist in England is The report envisages one were asking how much longer they

freedoms out the window. The signed for Japanese goods plum-

in a purely.. troops

protective elephant. entrance to the tunnel on the had to wait for American loans to reactionaries, headed by Premier meted from 113 million dollars in tion were confined to American said to have sketched a life-size

ZTE firmly in January to 40 million dollars in

might be more, It was a big draw. Meanwhile, after months of in-control of the govering Kowloon presumably North

the fiation which had rocketed and are heavily pressuring Gene- tracts signed earlier showed an Communists would have fewer of the present railway

volume of yen circulation from

alarming increase. Conditions in opportunities to coin vote-getting the SCAP-instigated labour re- form of 1945, is being denied, anti-occupation slogans, billion to more than 200 billion, station, which would have 15 m

Japan make it difficult to get re- been moved inland under a Japan's economy was nearing col-

As for the MacArthur reforms, with MacArtimar's approval, liable unemployment figures, but the government anticipates that the lapse. Half the food, and a large remodelling plan for

At SCAP headquarters,

one 1,500,000 industrial workers or four years after VV-Day the Em- 2 million government-employ- KC.R. If and when this is slice of all goods, were bought and

sold

rld in the blackmarket, whose

the educational reforms have been of Japan's organised labour. and the end of this month.

As Japan's most critical year virtually scrapped for lack of democracy seriously considered, there is were fast becoming the hears less and less about the great one in 10-will be workless by peror is still worshiped as a god; ed workers more than cure third

experiment in will be loud squawks from new Zaibatsu.

more and more about the need for The Blueprints Faded funds; the Labour Standards Law since the surrender dawns, the Large stocks of critical, raw the ferry company, but in

There was a time back in the is violated by thousands of fac-prime question is what will hap

tories (labour "bosses" are still pen when, in the feliness of time, actual fact their revenue materials were being hoarded strong government if Japan is to

when even hardshelled corres- would be little

badly worried affected, as

pondents thought some lasting side, signing up cheap labour, unese are has been demonstrated in.

squarely between the rival feudalistic consciousness. In those reported it bad "discovered" - Salarianisms of the right and other parts of the world.

had been "sold" 6,500 children days, MacArthur's headquarters endight be made in Japan's and the Welfare Ministry recently they see it, the choice today lies pro- left, with the Japanese masses, wins, puised with missionary zeal. Re-into industrial slavery or

stitution), and the right to strike, whoever guaranteed to all-workers under obeying orders?

one

Sir Patrick was emphatic that socner at later a cross, harbour tunnel must be built. This is one of the most im- portant of all his suggestions, and is linked up with several

Four Distinct Phases

in that he is

out SCAP orders.

The speeches of the female are Today, the overwhelming ma- more deadly than the male's. jority of the Japanese people

still

other basic matters, particul. through four well-defined mental to keep the family ricebew] Japan, it is the Japanese govern- ted

maintain that nothing can be done about central area traffic congestion until the Naval Dockyard is eliminat ed).

army

is

اة

capacity,

dockyard site, to emerge ir get Japanese exports rolling again Shigeru Yoshida, ing machine/ April, while cancellations of con-nlar with the Japanese and the i

of

ral MacArthur for permission to curb the Japanese labour move ment before the occupation ends-

er by force necessary.

Men

•

•

to

be kept safe from Communism [brave, enthusiastic days of 1940 egaly combing the coralry=]: Kre-occupation ends? Many Jane

The MacArthur reforms are in many cases being modified or scrapped. Japan's labour move- ficant political development in ment-the one potentialy signi Japan since the surrender-is to the turning more and more Japanese Communist Party for leadership.

60

cent of

the

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The strategy of Japan's extreme The distinguished planning rightists of sitting out the occu- neighbourhood of Tytara

most restrained pation with broad toothy smiles is Bay. There is no better time expert is than the present to bring when he mentions that "Hong paying off. Simultaneously with de the firing of more than 250,000 Kong is perhaps more

workers and tens pressure on them to prepare

of thousands from private in- plans, for even if agreed on, ficient in public buildings government

Der

London, September 20. the exodus would be a long than any other town of comdustry,

parable size in the world," 1,500 business leaners purged Three Economic Co-opera- and gradual one.

in Japan's milition Administration (ECA) touches on the difficult pro hall, art gallery, museum, tary

be unpurged among them the blem of transferring popula- public library, theatre or heads of the Missui and Mitsubi Kenya today to begin a three- investigation of the tion from overcrowded areas opera house. He left it to the hi trade octopuses. A SCAP month to other districts, as people conscience of those concerned official summed up the economic mineral wealth of British, tend to cling to the place that our wealthy prefer to trend by saying "Democracy is French and Portuguese Africa

to an expensive luxury that Japan

W. John Kenney, Minister in they live. In Hong Kong erect mansion houses

charge of ECA in Britain, said rather than cannot afford!"

the experts will examine possi- this is largely because of in- their memory

Peace Without Treaty oflities of mineral wealth deve efficient and inadequate com- civic edifices.

lopment in the interests of the He was further, prepared facilities. If munication

Today, the accent of this oceu-native populations and the Euro- transport services were im- to compromise on our unique proved, thousands would wel- absence of public parks, pation is on economic rehabilita-pean powers concerned.

Their investigations will help come living away from the merely suggesting that while fion and decontrol. The Supreme city's dirt, or would at least a broad scheme is being pre-Commander no longer orders. He determine what detailed explora

to get Japan of the necks their lot pared, "there must be no rely suggests" The target is tions and specific projects would of justify direct monetary help by be happy with

in-IECA when they found they could delay in snatching at any American taxpayers while main-

Many of "dollar reach offices, shops etc. from small play space or local taining its status as a

included SM the outside as quickly as park that can be preserved nation" within the United States projects to be looked at have been

programmes they do today. For example, from being over-run by the orbit

In pursuit of the gost of self- colonial development people can be in the centre hundred users....ever ready sufficiency, MacArthur has restor- to ECA by Britain, France and

vacant plot ed many of the advantages of Portugal. of London. from Brighton, to grab any

Britain's blueprint for the 50. miles away, by fast elec- The only point possibly over-peace without a peace treaty.

coloniai tric train as quickly as looked is that there must beJapan's foreign trade has been capital economic and social deve

Its international of who have to crawl a willingness to snatch on repeation have been restored empire ran into 2.400,000,000 others

The mission Japacese

will be led by going pationals ате through crowded streets by the part of the authorities.

Charles E. Sjoti, a mining: en- To recapitulate it would abroad in increasing numbers on bus from a city suburb.

The gineer and geologist with 25 An exceedingly shrewd be naive to expect any ma- MacArthur passports."

trade has resumed. Ee-years experience in the United payments have been States, Mexico, Canada and still Africa. With him will go Lewis.

observer, Sir Patrick. had terial results from the

reported. And Japan is

stop

The

the

I the mineral and metal

asbestos

for

submitted

in the hands of a single anticipate this by a mea, ernment are giving top priority's corundum (an abra-

judging by some of his non-in the near future, but a commital passages-few il start could at least be made. getting the American aid free W. Fergison and George Gillotte

The African mineral a few American protection and Ameri-

projects lusions about the reception For instance, after

every toi be explored are Kenya's the Colonial Office can technical assistance in.

Uganda's copper a his findings would receive. years He is unable to resist point- might send an inquiry as to branch of industry which might graphite,

peace treaty signed cobalt, Tanganyika's OD were a

servatives of Northern Rhodesia's copper and ing out that "a large part of what the government here

"Democratic- cobalt, Southern Rhodesia's the central business area is was doing. It would be fine to Yoshida's

fox Liberal" Party who

and copper, estate company," and simply report about the protracted just now to three sims. To re- sive) Nigeria's colombite and

Lastanlite metals, which are us puts it on record that "this investigations that had been gain absolute control over the tant

the Gold should facilitate a unified made, coupled with the con- cestiny of Japan; to smash the instin temps, lozambique's scheme of re-development. crete fact that we had for struggling new trade union move- Coast's manganese, A long-term scheme by this instance, fixed on two small ment before the occupation ends. (Portuguese West Africa's) man- and to recentralise Japan's police ganese and French Equatorial concern has been drafted sites which might be used forces under the government and Africa's industrial diamonds and

some time ago, but the for children's playgrounds. revive (suitably camouflaged in corundum Associated Press

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