2 OCTOBER 1926, Page 30

The Asahi, the Japanese newspaper published in Osaka and Tokyo,

which recently sent an aeroplane to Europe, sends us its special English Supplement, "Present Day Japan," consisting of 140 pages and a charming cover in colour depicting a geisha with gold fan, against a background of black and green, more graceful than any "magazine girl" of the West: The " rotogravure " section gives one an impression of speed, efficiency, industrialism : there are " action " pictures of Rugby football, of a crowd of 75,000 people watching a base- ball game, film-actors, airmen, banquets, factory girls demon- strating against labour legislation. This Supplement tells us much of modern Japan.