Japan s Food Crisis

The National Broadcasting Company at its affiliated stations present the Pacific story. This is the story of the Pacific. The drama of the millions of people who live around this greatest sea where the United States is now committed to a long-term policy of keeping the peace.

This as another public service of the National Broadcasting Company is the background story of the events in the Pacific and their meaning to us and to the generations to come. Japan's food crisis. In the wake of the war, the Japanese are today feeling the pinch of hunger.

For the restrictions of the Imperial government removed, the people of Japan are giving voice to their want in mass demonstrations. We want hope! We want hope! Hunger and unemployment and need for shelter face the Japanese.

And as the need increases, the millions are becoming more articulate. Waiting flags and shouting, the Japanese operating these days, they are making demands of their own government and they are respectfully making requests of the Americans.

We ask our Dr. You Americans to help us get a more bread from our government. But American policy in Japan is clear cut. We're going to fix things so that the Japanese will have a hard time eating the next 25 years.

Much less have leisure and materials to build up for another war. To find out the food situation in Japan, select one Japanese at random from the hundreds demonstrating in the streets of Tokyo. My name is Kogaro Fucida.

Ogado Fucitta is a farmer. Nearly half of the gainfully occupied population of Japan are farmers. I live west of Tokyo here, not far from the coast. In the basins in this area, rice is grown in the summer.