Los Angeles (CA 135) - Naval Cruise Book

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In spite of industrialization, 45 per cent of Japan ' s population is engaged in agriculture. Alone, the farmer may seem insignificant, but as a group he is the largest single force in food-scarce Japan. He who has the farmer ' s support is master of Japan. «»• 9 . .—» - 1 ' LU 5. I

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y . l v- $ 1 p K -% i: : ' 4- : . ' ■- -J«?» ' 74e r eii t at ' P ' u tAieCe Gnarled hands and toil-worn face burned to a coppery hue, the farmer stands knee-deep in paddy water, bending over green rice shoots. His reed-thatched home, timbers blackened with age, belonged to his father and his father ' s father before him. He is poorly educated and poverty-stricken, yet faces the endless wheeling of the seasons with the tenacity and abiding faith of his forebearers. 58

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60 ( LCt XCeicMft upward and outward for the growth it so strongly desires, the Japan of yesterday changes into the new and modern nation of today, and we watch the steel towers and monolithic skyscrapers soar.