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In the postwar years, the Japanese cotton industry has been host to quite a number of survey and study misions from abroad. Some of the most noteworthy on the technical side include the Leather Mission headed by Mr. E. C. Martin which was dispatched by the U.S. Government, and the more recent group organ ized by the N.C.C.A. and headed by Dean M. E. Campbell of North Carolina State College. The Japanese cotton industry, in turn, has sent survey missions abroad, inlcuding the one dispatched to the American Textile Machinery Exhibition held in Atlantic City in April 1954, which I had the honour to head. On this occasion, I had the opportunity of visiting more than twenty different laboratories, universities, institutions and other organizations -including the Department of Agriculture, the National Cotton Council in Memphis, and the S.R.R. Laboratories in New Orleans. I also paid official visits to nine spinning and finishing mills. After our group broke up, I made personal visits to numerous other American mills. I later visited Canada and South America. It is grati fying indeed to realize that this two and a half months' tour of mine enabled me to acquaint myself with so many of the technical and ope rational features of mill management in the United States. The spindleage in the mills I visited during my stay in the United States came to a total of 1,160,000. Since the total American spindle age is 22,600,000, this figure indicates that I barely covered 5% of the mills in actual opera tion. It would, consequently, be hasty to form any definite conclusions upon conditions in the American cotton industry on the basis of what I saw. I shall, therefore, confine myself simply to giving my impressions of the American cot ton industry and of its technical features as compared with those in Japan. At the Atlantic City exhibition I saw the best of the world's spinning techniques on view, and was inspired by the tremendous engine ering developments made in this field the world over. The exceedingly high productivity shown by American mills both in the Northern and the Southern States were deeply impressive to me. The most noteworthy fact in this respect lay in the smallness of the labour force employ ed per unit of production. The figures for the mills I visited are indicated in Table 1, and these are substantially half the figure for Japan.

A Japanese Looks at the American Cotton Industry