Evening star., 1945-06-28
Jap War Production
Stepped Up by Closing
Necessary Industry
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, June o.
Japan announced today it was clos
ing even necessary" industries to
step up war production and boasted
that the anticipated American in
vasion of the homeland would be
repulsed by an array Of suicide
weapons that would create world
wide amazement."
Domei news agency dispatches,
recorded by the Federal -Communi-
cations Commission, said production
priorities would be allowed only for
aircraft and "other armaments and
explosives"
The dispatches claimed the sui
eide weapons being prepared against
invasion we're almost equal to the
total number of tanks and guns
used in the European war.
Futures Trading Suspended.
An advisory board to the Japa-
nese cabinet, to be appointed tomor-
row from members Of the Imperial
Diet (parliamenD, will start work
Saturday to help enforce the die
tatorial extraordinary wartime
measures law" recently adopted.
Suspension of futures trading on
the Tokyo and Osaka stock mar
kets due to the current general
situation" was announced by the
japanese Security Exchange today
In a Domei news agency dispatch.
The Domei agency quoted one of
its correspondents on his return
from special attack" bases scat
tered throughout Japan. The cor
respondent said enormous" num-
bers of youths were being trained
to man the special suicide weapons.
Il even hope for an early landing
Iof enemy forces on our mainland
just to sense the thrill when we
strike deadly blow to the enemy
and in expectation of worldwide
amazement when our special at
tack weapons display full activity"
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New Defense Command.
The broadcast, heard by the Fed
eral Communications Commission,
reported that military observers
here are of the opinion that Japan's
special attack weapons completed
the experimental stage in the Oki-
nawa campaign"
Final, full-pledged results will be
obtained when United States forces
attempt to carry out a landing on
the japanese mainland" the cor
respondent added.
Against that day Of battle, an
other japanese broadcast said that
Tokyo defense army" command
had been established.
1t was the third command to be
set up this month and makes a total
of nine in the four main home
islands. Tokyo formerly was in a
defense district which also embraced
adjacent areas.
Future Declared Bright.
While all japanese regret the
loss Of Okinawa, Tokyo Radio Com
mentator Ichiro Bahia said, "Japan's S
future Is indeed bright" He said
that since Okinawa is now in Amer
ican hands, the Allies will soon at
tack the Japanese homeland and
''the sooner the enemy comes, the
better for us. for our battle array
is complete"
Premier Kantaro Suzuki's govern
ment. again exercising recently
granted emergency decree powers,
ANNOUNCED, meanwhile. q plan to re-
settle 10000 Of Japan's bombed-out
city dwellers on farms n
The move possibly was In answer
to demands by the Political Associa-
ton Of Great Japan, the totalitarian
party, that the government increase
food production and munitions in
the current crisis.
The Munitions Office ordered war
workers in large plants near Tokyo
to grow vegetables and other food
stuffs.
From Tokyo II engineers and
technicians were ordered to COM
paratively unbombed occupied Man.
churia ito improve the technique Of
the machine tool industry on the
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