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Show JAPAN'S BEST CUSTOMER. The United States has been one of Japan 's best customers for a number of years and the business of the Nipponese in ninny Hues would be poor indeed if our market was not open to them. According to invoices certified at the American consulates iu Japan, excluding ex-cluding those at Taiwan and Dniren, the exports to the Unite,- States during 1915 were valued at $!''$. 93. an increase of more than $4,000.0uu over the preceding year. Silk, raw and wa-te, and silk manufactures, were the principal prin-cipal articles invoiced and comprised more than half of the total exports, but we took $ti,nr)0.000 worth of tea and upper ingots and slah- :.f. a 0st of ivo.U7.33P. The Japanese a No furnished i tis with hats and bonnets and other mil-1 mil-1 linery wear, cotton manufactures, mats I ajid matting, porcelain and earthenware, hemp, chip and straw braid, beans and J peas and many o'her articles. They aUo furnished the ships in which to tians-' tians-' port these products to our shores. Japan is more dependent upon the United ! Stat es than any other country in the j world so far as marketing her chiet i products is concerned. Therefore, we must conclude that her statesmen would hesitate a long time before provoking trouble. |