ABSTRACT
The population of Jesso is, it is true, sparse, but the island does not offer a particularly attractive climate to the Japanese. Industrial developments in Japan are hampered by the fact that it does not contain within its own frontiers the raw materials essential to the conduct of modern industry. The great Japanese problems remain the same as before the war, and are the consequence of the density of population which makes it impossible to feed the present population out of its own resources. The fact that Japan lacks the possibility of peacefully acquiring suitable colonial areas has naturally evoked much bitterness against the white races among the population, and it is interesting in this connection to observe Japanese opinion on this subject. The Japanese appear to have been somewhat more successful in their colonial experiments, though only on a small scale, in the eastern states of South America.
