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Excerpt from Foreign Agriculture, Vol. 24: September, 1960 As a result, many sectors of the Japanese economy have developed un der the protective umbrella of con trols. Agriculture and industry alike have been shielded from foreign com petition or have learned to live with import controls. A variety of special interests has been created. Here, as elsewhere, an elected government can not simply ignore these interests; rather it must consider how best to reconcile them with its international commitments and with the broad needs of the nation. Trade-to-live. Further, although the Japanese economy has enjoyed a decade of remarkable growth, the country's industrial life still depends on foreign sources for such key-items as wool, cotton, petroleum, iron ore, steel scrap, and coking coal. The Jap anese people know that the nation must trade to live, that an unfavor able trend in international trade will threaten jobs and the standard of liv ing, and that without export earnings the country cannot buy the raw mate rials it needs to function as a mod ern state. Any government in Tokyo must take into account this public aware ness of Japan's dependence on trade. As a result, added weight is given to the tendency to be cautious about actions that might cause imports to grow faster than export earnings. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.