Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-12-17
JAPANESE BUYING GOODS HERE
Are Building Up Home Industries by
 the Aid of Chicago Machinery.

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 the Aid of Chicago Machinery.
 Chicago is building up by no means insignificant trade with Japan. The Yankees of the Orient are quick to discern whatever is of utility to them in the mechanic arts, and as a conse- auenee they are supplying themselves with machinery for the development of their industries direct from the faeto- ries on the shores of Lake Michigan. Tn the history of the entire world no other nation has experienced such 3 remarkable growth in it's commerce with Japan as has the United States Japanese official figures give the im- pcrtations from the United States in 1893 at 6,090, ,40S yen and in 1898 at 40,- 001 .097 yen. Meantime her importa- tions from England increased from 27,- 929,62s yen to 62.707,572 yen; those from Germany from 7,318.134 yen to 25.610,961 yen; those from France from 3,3O5.277 yen to 6,979,ss2 yen. and those from China from 17,095,975 yen to &C., 523 ,S60 yen, while the only part of the world which has experienced an in- crease at all to be compared with that of the United States is the British East Indies. whose increase has been from s,679,029 in 1893 to 40,764.244 yen in 1898. Japan's importations have grown enormously in the last five years. In 1893 they amounted to 8S, S,257,172 yen and in 1898 to PIT, ,502, 166 yen. Mean time her exports have grown from S9
 712,864 yen in 1893 to 165, ,753, ,752 yen in 1898. Thus the exports have doubled and the imports have trebled in the pe- riod under consideration. The disposi- tion of Japan is to look to the United States for constantly increasing pro- portion of it's supplies. In 1893 the United States furnished less than per cent of the imports into Japan and in 1898 IA per cent, while England, the. principal competitor in the markets of tue east, which in 1893 furnished g per cent of Japan's importations. in 1898 furnished 22.6 per cent. Not only have the producers and exporters Of the United States developed in the last few years a disposition to push their sales in that country. but Japan herself is showing disposition to make her purchases from the nearest markets those of the United States-and has recently established steamship lines connecting with United States ports. Japan by reason of recent events is tho nearest neighber to the United States, aside from those whose territory is ae- tuaIIy contiguoHs-C Canada and Mexico. Her comp paratiVe4y recent exchange af mainland territory to Russia for the line of islands stretching northwardiy from her central group brings her ter ritory 10 within about 800 miles of that of the United States in the Aleu- tan chain of islands, while at the south her newly acquired isl1ad og Fofmbsa lies within less than 200 miles of the Philippines. Thus not only are the United States and Japan neighhors territorially, but their insular posses sions combined stretch along the en- tire Pacific coast of Asia from arctic 10 equatorial waters. Chicago Chron- icle. ns, .s 1
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