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Show JAPAN TO BECOME BIG TRUCK MARKET "Japan offers an almost unlimited market mar-ket to the American builders of Heavy haulage trucks." asserted T. Tanaka of Tokio, Japan, while In Lansing to Inspect In-spect the four-wheel drive truck manufactured manu-factured by the Duplex Truck company. "SYe have many undeveloped mines in our country and road construction is just starting. At the present time tills work u. beins conducted slowly and expensively, expen-sively, because little labor-saving machinery machin-ery has been brought to our country. , There are not more than itfty heavy haulage haul-age trucks In Japan today. "Of course, there lias not been a great demand for trucks in Japan in the p'is'.. because the resources of our eountrv were undeveloped and there wan a1 scarcity of money. Hut there has ieen an almost phenomenal change in Japan sine the war in Kurope st.trted. "Mill ions of dollars have been sent t-" Japan our exports have increased by, leaps and hounds and as a result labor-saving labor-saving machinery arid up-to-date methods meth-ods axe replacing our centuries-old ous-. torn1:. We have the money to pay fr.r trucks now and I believe that thousands of hen vy 'nan la ge mot or vehicles v: i 1 be imported Into .lav.nii -luring the n-t f - |