But the opposite is a foregone conclusion if the free world closes its markets to Japanese goods. Japan inevitably will trade with the Communist bloc. For Japan must trade. Japans natural markets. to be sure. are in the Orient. and at the present time the only Asiatic countries with whom she can trade in volume are Communist controlled. Eventually. perhaps. Japan will be able to rely on her Asiatic neighbors for markets. This area. however. is presently underdeveloped. and until it becomes developed the countries of the West. particularly the United States. Canada. and Western Europe. will have to be willing to take their fair share of Japanese merchandise.