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ELECTRICAL communication industries are developing very rapidly in Japan. There are a million telephones in use, and two million homes have radio receiving sets. The Institute of Telephone and Telegraph Engineers has now five thousand members, and publishes a valuable technical journal every month. It has been decided to increase its usefulness by publishing every quarter an English edition of it. In the first English journal, the president of the Institute, Mr. T. Akiyama, says that their present knowledge of the technique of electrical communications has been obtained largely from abroad, and that it is their duty to bring to the notice of foreign countries their own achievements in research and so repay the friendship shown to them through many years. By so doing it is hoped to contribute to the general advance of civilisation. It is stated that limited land and over-population have placed Japan in a position in which the nation cannot exist on agriculture alone; it is forced to turn to manufacturing industry for its welfare. At the present time, approximately 40 per cent of the Japanese population is engaged in commerce and industry. Japan is the boundary line between Asia and the Pacific Ocean. It is the duty of Japan to provide national and international communication networks so as to help to harmonise the Oriental and the Western civilisations. The development of radio communication in Japan has been largely due to their own initiative, and practically all the transmitting apparatus is of their own manufacture. There are twenty-five broadcasting stations which are run by a company under the supervision of the Government. They are all interconnected by wire lines. The Japanese director-general of engineering says that their ideal is to help the fusion of cultures by keeping in constant touch with the other nations of the world. The journal, Nippon Electrical Communication Engineering, is a useful contribution to technical literature.
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Japan and Electric Communication. Nature 137, 63 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137063c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/137063c0