Press translations [Japan]. Economic Series 0264, 1946-02-05.

ITEM 1 Varieties of Sabotage Concealing of Materials for Evasion of Tax the Most Malicious - Nippon Sangyo Keizai (Tokyo) - 4 Feb 46. Translator: T. UKAI.

• 1.Sabotage carried out with the idea that non-production pays better. This tendency is seen in almost ever kind of industry, and especially abundantly seen in such industries as mining, refining, rolling stock, machinery, etc. Taking the cooper industry as an example, the typical way of thinking is: "The copper supply on hand is supposed to reach some 100,000 metric tons including scraps. But, overseas markets and commerce are able to influence

•   ECONOMIC SERIES: 264 (Continued) ITEM 1 (Continued) the future of the copper refining industry a greatdeal, so that investment funds can not be called in, even if the business is resumed, invested with a great sum. It is, therefore, reasonable for a mining company to stand still and refrain from production".
• 2.Sabotage, taking into consideration reparations. This category includes those cases in which one fears to come to be the object of reparations through actual goods and would abstain from production, or would hesitate from switching over plants, etc., and air-craft, engineering machinery, war commodities and shipping industries (which calls for immediate production!) are also included. We can see with us the majority of plants for air-craft, engineering machinery and war commodities owned by NAKAJIMA, discharging employees, and waiting quietly for a change of circumstances.
• 3.Sabotage carried out as a result of scarcity of raw materials. This is the case with the iron, steel, soda, cement and refining industries. They are continuing to keep themselves intact by retarding production as the supposition that work would result in more loss than ever because production could only expect an early interruption because of limited raw materials.
• 4.Sabotage from unstabilized condition of demand and supply. Manufacture of engineering, precision and motive power machinery come under this heading.
• 5.Sabotage carried out mainly as a result of the pending condition of national compensation. This ia the cause which would assert itself among most industries as well as in the cases mentioned in the first item. For capitalists, the most favored cause means nothing but the expression of the indecisive character of company management.
• 6.Sabotage as a means to evade the law and regulations referring to property tax, etc. This is the most vicious sort of sabotage. Taking into account details of labor, materials and plants, etc., such products as bicycles, watches, radios, leather and rubber goods, carriages, etc., should be amply expected through ordinary channels in the market. That they are as yet scarce in the market ascribes itself to the fact that one makes a large scale heard of such products, finished or unfinished, aiming to raise prices or to anticipate the rise of general commodity prices or has the intention of evading taxation. One cannot deny the presence of the fact. It can be proved also by the fact that the Government is planning the compulsory purchase of concealed goods, and such a tendency,: ie concealing goods, is spreading all through the country. We could declare that this is the most malicious sabotage now being carried out, one that would make the most of the current state of affairs.

ITEM 2 Title, Volume and Value of Exported Goods Relation to the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (Jan.-Dec. 1946) - Tokyo Shimbun - 4 Feb 46. Translator: S. Iwata.

ITEM 3 Government Stern Rice Control Program Not Very Unpopular - Nippon Sangyo Keizai - 4 Feb 46. (Investigation made by Foodstuff Control Bureau - Shokuryo Kanri Kyoku) Translator: T. Kitagawa.