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...soul-crushing devastation of World War II, Japan ranks among the world's great industrial powers. Stimulated originally by liberal transfusions of U.S. aid* and propelled by the boundless energy of its people, Japan last year boosted its national output to $45 billion-four times the highest prewar level. Exporting at the rate of $4 billion a year (triple the 1951 rate), Japan today is the U.S.'s single biggest trading partner after Canada; last year Japan's exports to the U.S. hit $1.1 billion, its imports from the U.S. $2.2 billion...
King of Taxpayers. Japan's energetic businessmen, freed from the military domination of prewar days, have shown themselves to be among the world's most aggressive and imaginative free enterprisers. And of all the men who have helped to build Japan's prodigious industrial machine, none has worked so consistently and successfully to distribute its products among Japan's ordinary people as Seiji Hayakawa's boss - gentle, sad-eyed Konosuke Matsushita (pronounced Mat-soosh-ta), founder of giant Matsushita Electric Industrial...
...building Japan's industrial and military power at forced draft. The policy was in part highly successful-until World War II, Japan was the only Asian nation that had never been colonized or dominated by a Western power-but it cost a grim price. Like Communist China today, prewar Japan built its strength on the sweat of its people, had no surplus to spare for decent living conditions...
...prewar product line, Matsushita has added a staggering array of new products including television sets, tape recorders, hearing aids, mechanical massagers, electric pencil sharpeners and electrically heated trousers; now he is developing a home freezer and a line of computers...
...shouldn't what has been good for Ireland, Palestine and prewar India be good for Algeria? The only sensible and humane solution to the worst problem in the world lies in partition...