Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-05-15
JAPAN IS FRIENDLY
She Wants an Alliance With
United States.
VIEWS OF MIKAD0'S ENVOY
But San Francisco Trouble May Pre-
vent the Plan. Is
REGARDS. US AS REAL ALLY
Baron ozawa Declares That His Coun-
try Does Not Want the Philip
pine Islands for Any Purpose.

NEW YORK, May 15-Baron ozawa,
member of the japanese house OF peers
and special representative of the mikado,
commissioned to ascertain the extent Of the
anti-Japanese feeling in this country and to
express the thanks Of the mikado to those
Americans who aided the japanese during
the famine in northeast Japan. had this to
say last night at te Hotel Normandie.
where he and his party are stopping:
Japan has looked earnestly for an al
lance with the United States. because In
substance we have always regarded this
country as a real ally of Japan. We are
DESTROYS of having such alliance IL 1t
could be arranged. AS long. though. as
any misunderstanding like the anti-Jap-
anese feeling in San Francisco exists it
an alliance"
Baron Ozawa said that he would report
to the emperor that he found no evidences
of anti-Japanese feeling existing anywhere
in the country outside of San Francisco
He added that the Americans with whom
he had talked had assured him that the
japanese were regarded as honest and in
teliigent people. His countrymen residing
here with whom he had talked, he said, all
told him that they were being treated in
cordial and friendly manner by Americans.
The Open Door.
Asked if Japan proposed to allow the
'open door to the world in Manchuria,
Baron Ozawa said:
There is no question about the open
door in Manchuria. Even before the war
with Russia we hoped for an open door,
and it was for this and the peace OF the
world that we fought in the far east"
Baron Ozawa said that Japan had no
dreams of further territorial expansion in
the Pacific, and declared that it was I'M
necessary for her to acquire other pos
sessions ..-,-
would Japan purchase the Philippines
If the United States offered them to her?"
was asked.
Japan has heard much Of the Philip
pines and I have often talked OF them to
my feIlow-members in the house Of peers"
replied the baron, ''but we do not desire
Japan hopes that the United States will al
ways keep the Philippines. If they were
to come into the possession Of any other
power then Japan would consider their ac-
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Japan's financial capacity would not al
low a further increase Of. the navy, he
frankly added. . .
No Single Idea.
The baron said that Japan had no single
idea or thought that it would advance at
the coming meeting of the peace tribunal
at The Hague, and, after a moment Of re-
Election. added:
Japan does not regard the efforts Of
The Hague seriously, as the conferences
are simply talks and arguments. and moth
ing of weight or moment Is DONE"
Tomorrow morning Baron Ozawa will
decorate DIR. Louis Klopsch, editor of~the
Christian Herald, with the decoration of
the Rising Sun from the mikado, because
of the doctors earnest efforts toward the
relief of Japan during the famine. DR..
klopsch will also receive from Baron Oza-
wa a certificate of life membership in the
Japanese Red Cross Society and the So
cietys decoration.
The baron is accompanied by Mr.. Masa-
take Togo. his secretary, distant relative
of Admiral Togo; Prof q. Kanazawa and
u. Naitor. Baron Ozawa and his party
will visit President Roosevelt and Secre-
tary Taft In Washington next week, and
after an inspection of the Red Cross in
Philadelphia. will sail for England on May
25. where they will attend the eighth in
ternationai Red Cross conference In London
in June.