What’s Wrong With Japan Survey Reveals Silk Crisis
Fortune Magazine outlines a severe crisis in Japan’s raw silk industry affecting farmers and workers. The conflict between military financiers and business interests is shown through a detailed survey, highlighting widespread hardship among silk farmers and the broader economic strain in Japan.
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Japan
Fortune Magazine
Fortune the Globe
NEA Service
Fortune
Time-Fortune Corporation
Tokio
Mitsui Bank
Mitsui
Takasume Mitsui
Silk and Farm Strife in Japan’s Looming Crisis
The piece outlines Japan’s silk empire built on farmer misery and rising industrial profits. It traces postwar booms and 1929 declines, rayon growth, and taxes driving farmers toward hardship, including debts and daughter labor, while financiers ride profits and export reliance with the U.S. remains crucial to the economy.
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Japan
America
U. S
U.S
Asia
Mitsui
Mitsubishi
Mix of prophecy and politics amid a world in flux
A sprawling column jabs at Huey Long and a fantasy of 25,000,000 free houses while noting Hitler’s radio television schemes, Mussolini’s Med risks, Greece unrest, Japan’s silk woes, and U.S. debates on governance, economics, and California taxation as the nation eyes a tense 1936 landscape.
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Huey Long
Hitler
Berlin
Senator Long
America
Abraham Lincoln
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City Drug Co
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