10 APRIL 1982, Page 18

Sir: Surely the point of Murray Sayle's arti - cle in

your issue of 27 March is that Japan imports its fuel froth the Arabs, who imPo.rl manufactured goods from the West, who in turn import manufactured goods from, Japan; and that this three-way trade is fag. Critics of Japan who see only the trade bet- ween Japan and the West are both short- sighted and unfair.

Adrian White

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