Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 182, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1919 — Jap Industry Stimulated. [ARTICLE]

Jap Industry Stimulated.

The war has greatly stimulated the Japanese to undertake the manufacture of leather, and several large factories have been established in Tokyo and other districts. Owing to the undeveloped condition of the live stock industry in Japan? practically all the leather used In the manufacture of boots and shoes had heretofore been imoorted. i.