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Show RISING COSTS ARE WORRYING JAPANESE TOKIO, Sunday, Sept. 8. (By the Associated Press.) The astounding increase in-crease in the cost of living continues to affect all aspects of life and is generally 1 attributed to the overwhelming excess of exports. The government has decided to meet the grave economic problem by increasing in-creasing all salaries 50 per cent, and private pri-vate employers are following the government's govern-ment's lead. The government has inaugurated a far-reaching far-reaching investigation into economic, labor la-bor and social problems. Having adopted adopt-ed all practical measures of relief, the impression generally is that the cabinet will soon resign, and this is expected further to relieve the internal situation. Representative leaders and the conservative con-servative newspapers emphasize their belief be-lief that Japan, affected by the current of world thought, has entered a new era of development; that the masses of the people are beginning to perceive their power, and that all questions must be faced and mat wfrajirely to avoid further trouble. |