The Japanese Dilemma C

The National Broadcasting Company and its affiliated stations present the Pacific Story. This is the story of the Pacific and the millions of people who live around this greatest scene. The drama of the peoples whose destiny is at stake in the Pacific War.

This is the background of the war in the Pacific and its meaning to us and to the generations to come. Tonight's Pacific story, the Japanese dilemma comes to you as another public service with drama of the past and present and commentary by Dr. Clayton Keras, chairman of the Department of Trade and Transportation at the University of Southern California and co-author of Japan,

its resources and industries. The Japanese dilemma. Assired from the bloody battles which have been fought in the Pacific since Pearl Harbor, and aside from the battles that lie ahead, Japan's goal of empire in the Pacific is almost impossible of attainment.

So say economic experts. Japan must expand or die. To succeed, Japan must have peace, must have time to exploit her stolen territories, But Japan cannot stop fighting while she develops them. Added to this, there are other complications.

By 1930, Japan had a rapidly increasing population. The question is, what are we going to do with our overflow population? We have always had enough fish and rice and vegetables. But how are we going to maintain a civilised standard of living on what we produce our still?

Look at this report. Yes, you'll see, agriculture is still Japan's leading industry. We are rapidly becoming an industrial nation. You are a military man. I am an economist. And there are mass paper artifacts. Do you mean that in spite of our great increases in population, that we still produce enough food to feed all our millions?