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Show JAPAN'S BIG FAIR. Next month there will bo opened at Osaka, Japan, an exhibition of import and export commodities of great magnitude. magni-tude. The exposition will bo held under the auspices of tho Osaka Commercial museum and will continue from September Sep-tember 11 to November 24. Every branch of industry and manufacture manu-facture in the empire will be represented repre-sented with comprehensive displays. A unique feature will be a showing of packing cases and materials. Arrangements Arrange-ments have been made to obtain a complete com-plete collection of Japanese samples of boxes, cartons and other containers, as well as the materials from which they aro fashioned. The management is now engaged in an endeavor to procure similar sim-ilar models of packages from European countries and the United States. It is the hope of .the directors of the enterprise that tho exposition will stimulate stim-ulate industry in Japan, especially in those lines which are peculiarly Japanese, Japa-nese, and also that it will result in broadening the Japanese view. It is safo to say that the Japanese, shrewd traders and farsighted business men, will not sit idly by while a world in need is crying for goods. The Osaka fair is but one of tho measures by means of which Japan hopes to draw attention to her manufactures. |