Press translations [Japan]. Economic Series 0088, 1945-12-20.
Date20 December, 1945
translation numbereconomic-0424
call numberDS801 .S81
Persistent Identifier
ECONOMIC SERIES: 88
ITEM 1 Rise in Prices; Decrease in Savings - Provincial Paper Kahoku Shimpo (SENDAI) - 13 Dec 45. Translator: Z. Konishi.
Summary:
How are those earning fixed salaries getting along? Since the abolishment of price
control, the prices of daily necessities
have increased remarkably. On this account, most salaried men are having a hard time
making a living. Under the present
abnormal economic situation, no matter how salary men struggle, their postal savings
are only reduced. Moreover, their savings
have now reached their limit owing to continual withdrawing. At the present time in
the TOHOKU district, however, a figure for
savings is indicated at about 63 per cent of the 980 million yen scheduled for 1945's
saving amount. Most of these depositors
generally consist of people who live in farm and fishing villages and are not affected
by the present food crisis or by black
markets. Most of the urban people have been scarely able to manage without hugh withdrawal
from the bank. Particularly, in the
cities of SENDAI and AOMORI, which were affected by air raids, there can be seen this
tendency. Actual figures of withdrawal
and deposits could be seen through an usher's window of the SENDAI Central Post Office.
The bank accounts totalled 221,000 yen
in July, 1945; however, by the end of war, withdrawal of money was suddenly increased,
and in November bank accounts fell to
less than 186,000 yen. This December, the bonus' season of the year, there cannot
be expected that a large amount will be set
aside for saving, according to the Post Office authorities.
Salaried men are obliged now to sell their clothes for a living. In SENDAI city,
to obtain cash for living, many people are
intending to sell their clothes to old clothes dealers.
Why is the pay less in JAPAN? Of course, it is because of the economical situation
in JAPAN, but also the Pay Control Bill,
which aimed at a policy of low prices during the war. We can take an example from
one officer who has been working for ten
years, (ever since he graduated from college) At present he has four in the family.
According to that bill, his available
income is only 140 yen a month against 300 yen for expenditures because of a stringent
food situation. In the present crisis,
salaried men are having a most difficult time.
ITRM 2 Conversion of airfield into salt field Blamed by Chairman of the United Towns Association in YAMAGUCHI-KEN - Provincial Newspaper, Bocho Shimbun, Yamaguchi - 13 Dec 45. Translator: H. Shindo.
Full translation:
The conversion of a former army airfield, located in BOFU city in YAMAGUCHI-KEN,
into a salt field has been approved by the
Monopoly Bureau. The rights to the field have been granted to the Dai Nippon Salt
ECONOMIC SERIES 88 (Continued)
ITEM 2 (Continued)
Production Company and the MYOKO Salt Production Company.
The city once had to reduce its farming land to make room for the airfield and now
is eager to recover it for food production.
City authorities have debated on the harm this conversion into salt fields will bring
to the farm lands in the vicinity and an
appeal has been made through the prefecture authorities to regain the area. In this
connection, the chairman of the United
Towns Association approved a resolution passed at a meeting held on 10 December that
the Finance Ministry is wrong in granting
the site for salt production and is ignoring the desires of the people of the city.
The resolution continues to the effect
that it may be understandable for the Ministry to encourage salt production, but the
granting of this airfield means
authorizing the same shameful activities for selfish interests that have prevailed
in the past. It was further decided that
the city authorities be persuaded to take the matter up with General MacARTHUR'S Headquarters.
ITEM 3 KOBE Hopes to Recover its Fame with KOBE Beef - Provincial Newspaper, Kobe Shimbun (Kobe) - 14 December 45. Translator: H. Shindo.
Full translation:
The CHICAGO stockyards are indeed very famous, and we plan to have slaughterhouses
in KOBE modelled after those in
CHICAGO.
KOBE City hopes to have slaughterhouses modelled after those in the famous CHICAGO
stockyards. It is further hoped that "Kobe"
beef will recover its once-appreciated reputation, and its by-products industry will
soon become active.
When cattle are slaughtered, nothing is wasted. The Municipal slaughter house has
slaughtered several hundreds of cattle per
month recently, and over one thousand before the war. Horns, skins, and bones of butchered
cattle have been sent to OSAKA and
HIMEJI in HYOGO-Ken to be changed into skin goods, toothbrushes, and handiwork. Now,
however, KOBE must prosper on its smaller
scale industry, which deals with these materials, and should set up industries where
cattle are utilized for both the food and
useful products for export and civilian consumption.
This is an aim of KOBE City. At present, for this purpose, the municipal slaughterhouse
has modernized its equipment,
utilizing electric chains to butcher the cattle. KOBE City authorities also intend
to construct another new slaughterhouse
next year.
ITEM 4 The Amended Sum for Collateral Materials (Fibre Goods, Machineries, etc.) Amounts to 3,600,000,000 yen - Sangyo Keizai - 16 Dec 45. Translator: S. Iwata.
Full translation:
The following is a list of Japanese products to be used as collateral for imports
and their estimated values, presented by the
Minister of Commerce and Industry, OGASAWARA, at a plenary session of the House of
Representatives:
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ECONOMIC SERIES 88 (Continued)
ITEM 4 (Continued)
MATERIALS | THIS YEAR (yen) | NEXT YEAR (yen) | TOTAL (yen) |
FIBRE GOODS (Raw silk, silks, cotton yarn, cotton goods, etc.) | 287,000,000 | 1,321,000,000 | 1,599,000,000 |
CHEMICAL GOODS (Tartaric acid, citric acid pith, glass-ware, etc.) | 46,000,000 | 313,000,000 | 359,000,000 |
FLATIMTUM, ANTIMONY, FERRO-SILICOM. | 113,000,000 | 316,000,000 | 429,000,000 |
AGRICULTUR AND MARINE FRODUCTS (Marine Products furs, tea, canned foods, Japanese isinglass, pyrethrum, etc) | 26,000,000 | 223,000,000 | 249,000,000 |
GENERAL MERCHANDISED (Toyies, photographic materials, stationary, paper trinkets, etc.) | 157,000,000 | 157,000,000 | |
ARTISTIC AND INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTS | 5,000,000 | 200,000,000 | 205,000,000 |
TOTAL | 478,000,000 | 2,525,000,000 | 3,003,000,000 |
DISTRIBUTION "X"
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