Modern business geography

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Identifikator:: 1830562916

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-217337

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Huntington, Ellsworth http://d-nb.info/gnd/117070092; Cushing, Sumner W.

Title:: Modern business geography

Place of publication:: New York [usw.]

Publisher:: World Book Company

Year of publication:: 1930

Scope:: VIII, 352 S.; Ill., graph. Darst.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part four. The field of consumption

Collection:: Economics Books

The Contrast between Asia and Australia 319 Fic. 186. Owing to the scarcity of grazing land in Japan, and the poor quality of the grass and of the rice straw, there are few draft animals. The Japanese make use of man power and of hoats on their narrow rivers and deeply indented coasts to supplement railway transportation. (¢) Japan: a considerable variety of goods, especially silk, cot- ton, and woolen textiles (the cotton being eight times as valu- able as the wool and twice as valuable as the silk); paper, matches: earthenware: oil. Elsewhere in Asia there is almost no manufacturing except of a very simple or even primitive type. In fact, except in Japan there is not a single manufacturing city in our sense of the word. Even in Japan, although there are more than half as many people as in the United States, the number engaged in manufacturing in 1918 was only one eighth as great as here. 27. How far does Table V indicate that Asiatic industries use raw materials imported from other continents ? 28. Which of the raw materials used in the industries mentioned above are produced in Asia to the extent of at least 30 per cent of the world’s total ? 29. What does Figure 7 show as to the cotton production of Japan? Why does Japan import raw cotton from the United States ? 30. Why are Japan’s exports of cotton and silk cloth worth ten to twenty times as much as her exports of iron goods and machinery?

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