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Show JAPANESE HS I FOGiiUIES I Promotion of Productive Set-tlements Set-tlements on Western Coast of America Sought. CRUISE IS ARRANGED I Society Recently Formed Is Backing Work of Careful Investigation. t Special Cable to the Tribune. TO-ICIO, Aug. 2. Scrutiny of tho Pacific coast of North' and South America and the South Sea Islands, for the promotion of productive coloniza-tion, coloniza-tion, is the announced object of the Japan Exploration society, recently formed for the general purpose of inaugurating Japanese exploration. . The first expedition willv leave in Sep-tcmber Sep-tcmber for a two years' cruise on a 115-ton schooner. The course for the cruise includes the Izu and Bonin islands, the South Sea islands, the coasts of Brazil and Chile and the Pa-cific Pa-cific shores of North and South Amer-ica. Amer-ica. The schooner will then visit Cuba and the coast of Airica, and later make her way through the Medi-terranean Medi-terranean sea. On the homeward trip she will touch at several points in India and Australia. S. Takeda, a graduate of tho Japanese Nautical college and a seasoned sailor, will be the captain of the little vessel. The exploration society is composed of a number of influential Japanese, and it enjoys the support of Fleet Ad-miral Ad-miral Ito. jH Boosts for Tokio. A bigger and busier industrial Tokio is the dream of Baron Sakatani, mayor of the capital of the Japanese empire. Osaka, great industrial city to the jH south, has made giant strides as a world port, and Mayor Sakatani is anxious that Tokio should show more rivalry to Osaka, which he calls. the IH Manchester of Japan. The baron is convinced that China IH offers a great field for Japanese enter prise, and that the commercial de-velopment de-velopment of Tokio is necessary so that Japan may take advantage of this field. Manchuria and Korea also loom up as possibilities for increased fl Japanese commerce, but in order to get this trade Tokio must devise somo moro convenient- means of transporta-tion transporta-tion than by Kobe or Tsuruga. The first step, the mayor thinks, should be IH the opening of a new port at Naoyetsu, in Echigo, north of Tokio. In its IH commercial development Tokio suffers fl from the disadvantage of higher wages fl and more extravagant habits of liv-ing. liv-ing. Tokio has been a city of consump-tion consump-tion rather than of production, and it is the national center of ease and pleasure. Realize Disadvantages. "Everything comes t0 Tokio," Mayor Sakatani says, "hut seldom is anything sent from Tokio elsewhere. The disadvantages to be overcome are the high cost of fuel and labor. If Tokio is to secure the Chinese field for her manufactures we will have to im-prove im-prove our system of water communica-tion communica-tion and settle various phases of the local labor question. " Since the revolution in China the de-mand de-mand for foreign manufactures has grown enormously, and Japan should be in a position to take her share, according to Mayor Sakatani. An im-portant im-portant stop to that end is the making of Tokio a greater commercial ana industrial center, and the cultivation of the friendship of China by promot-ing promot-ing mutual understanding between the merchants of both countries. |