JAPAN: Notes, Aug. 31, 1925

So profitable have the luxury duties proved which were imposed a year ago that it is reported the Department of Commerce and Industry will advocate new import duties on watches and phonograph records. The profitableness of such duties indicates the spreading field of Japanese consumption and also of manufactures, for the new duties are planned also as a kind of protective tariff.

Colonel W. K. Naylor, U. S. A., now stationed in China is author of a book The Principles of Strategy. So much admired was it by the Japanese, that they...

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