English Translation

67 5 Manchukuo, but for the greater part it is treasures that hold the Anglo-Saxon powers firmly in their hands. What Japan needs. Japan alone is not richly blessed from Neiur with raw materials and diets; it has always nourished itself through the most intensive soil culture on the coasts and from the rich blessing of the sea. It is clear that the number of peoples in the Tokugawa period, until the actual development, was artificially kept low, and only then did that stormy increase which Japan included in the Great Powers begin. But economically, during this period of free world trade, it was only possible to maintain itself by expanding a world economic monoculture, namely the raw silk, and after World War II, by a huge industrial expansion and by conquering the most diverse markets for Japan's export throughout the Pacific Ocean. The United States recorded four-fifths of Japan's total raw silk export, the rest mostly in areas of the British Empire. Japanese industrial goods began to go to China and replaced the Anglo-Saxon products, which had been used for decades, then conquered India, South America and Australia and invaded even the sacred American territory of the Philippines. With this important export, which increased more and more, Japan created the necessary raw materials for its life management and further expansion of its industry, and when the conflict broke out in China, also for its armor and war management.North America supplied mainly cotton, scrap, copper and gasoline; Australia supplied wool and hides; Dutch and rear India supplied rubber, tin, sugar and crude oil. In addition, the agreement with Russia on fishing on the coasts of Sakhalin and Kamchatka added to Japan's supply of fish. Japan had thus secured its supply, but the Anglo-Saxon powers had nevertheless made themselves an economic enemy. When the European war broke out, America remained relatively passive at first. It was only enough to cancel the American-Japanese trade contract, which had been in existence for decades, in January 1940. England was all the more active. It caused all its Empire members on the silent ocean to become the most severe restriction, even practically blocking imports from Japan. India had to import its import duties by 20 percent. In addition, Australia had large import restrictions effective from January 1941, and Dutch India implemented the licensing system for many Japanese imported goods cin. So all this looked very much like an economic boycott. In addition, the British currency war between Yen and Yuan in northern China, which was unleashed by the British side, was followed by a struggle between Pound and Yen. England, too, left its golden balls playing here. Japan, meanwhile, stubbornly set off on its goal in China. He managed to escape the English. Tientsin, to push the Anglo-Saxon capital powers out of the Yangtze Valley and partly out of southern China, and finally the closure of Burma Street, the - 6 -