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Show Rubber In Japan. The rubber manufacturing Industry In Japan has developed greatly within the past year in the scope nnd variety of its products. In the export trade, too, its Importance Is Increasing. The growth of the Industry may be seen from the steady Increase in the import im-port of crude rubber. The official trade returns state that the import in 1917 totaled 9,080.632 yen over the figure for 1915. Formerly most of the automobile auto-mobile tires used Irf Japan were imported im-ported into that country, but now the greater part of Japan's needs are supplied sup-plied by domestic manufacturers. The export of automobile tires has nlo begun with the development of rubber plants In Japan. |