Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-20

and has houses in Toxic, New York,
London and Paris. Madame Horikoshi
accompanies him.
Newspaper Men Aboard
Suyeo Iwaya is a noted writer, prin-
cipally of childrens stories, of which
he has published many volumes, but he
is also the author of a history OF the
Japanese Russian war He also writes
for the daily press and for periodicals.
Among the newspaper men in the
party, among whom there are several,
is Motosada Zumoto, editor and pub
Usher of the Japan Times of Toxic, the
only daily newspaper in Japan pub
lished by japanese in English. 1t cir
culates extensively throughout the ORR
ent.
The members of parliament are: X.
Otani, house of peers, and the following
members of the house of representa-
tives: Tamenousuke Ishibashi of Osaka,
editor of the osaka Isahi Shibmun;
Buyei Nakano, president Cf the Toxic
chamber of commerce, one of the lead
ing statesmen and business men OF the
empire, and who has ably assisted Bar
on Shibusawa in elevating the busi-
ness standards of Japan; Kaishiro
Nedzu of Toxic, who is president OF
two flour milling companies, brewing
company, a railway company and dl-
rector Of numerous other railway, cleo
trio light and other corporations; j.
Nishimura, president of the Kyoto
chamber Of commerce, merchant ana
manufacturer; Bokushin OF, president
of the Sulphuric Acid company of Osa-
ka-Mr. OF is the senior member of the
commission, being 76 years old; Waku-
taro Satake, president of the Toxic
Electric Lighting company and repre-
sentative of the city Of Kofu-in the
line of electric energy Mr.. Satake is
one of the leading men of the empire;
Kumejiro Taxi Of Kobe, manufactur-
er of fertilizers.
The following are the presidents or
the six Japanese chambers of COM
merce: Yokohama, K. Otani; Toxic,
B. NakanO; osaka, Michio Dol; Kobe,
Kojiro Matsukata; KyOtO, j. Nishi-
mura; Nakoya, T. Kadono (vice presi-
denD.
The object Of the trip is two-fold;
first, to increase and extend trade re-
latiOns, and. second, to improve the
personal acquaintance and friendly re-
lations between representative men OF
the two nations. Before leaving Japan
Baron Shihusawa made a statement Of
the reasons for the visit, from which
the following is an extract:
"A glance at the fifty-five years past
history of Japan brings before us most
vividly the value Of the gentle yet firm
guidance Of America. Commodore
Perry, with four men-of-war, arrived
at Japan and pressed her to open the
country with strong determination and
zeal The Bakufu-the then existing
gOvernment-aCcepte the good will Of
America, and gave consent to open
Yokohama and Kobe for trading pur-
poses. Mr.. Harris, the American min
10 Du1y frr
so that it would not take false steps
in foreign diplomatic relations. He
acted as a kind instructor, so as to
shut out unreasonable claims likely to
be made by other powers, and we are
greatly indebted to America in these
respects Ever since the friendly re-
lations between Japan and America
have been growing thicker and closer,
so that America returned to us the
compensation paid by Japan regarding
the Shimo-no-sek affairs.
Last year we invited American bus
mess men and by the special call of
the American squadron the friendly re-
lation between the two countries has
been specially strengthened. My visit
to America at this juncture is to in
tensify the friendly relations between
the two countries and also to further
the Japan American tradal relations.
Japan as was guided and instructed
by America must stand in friendly re-
lations with America, which ever since
the Spanish war abandoned the Mon
roe doctrine, and adopted the imperial
istic spirit, so that America has an
neTed the Philippine islands, and this
change in the attitude of America, it
is argued by some, will bring about a
collision with Japan. Such is altogether
an ungrounded fear. There is abso-
lutely no reason why Japan should
turn its warlike weapons toward Amer
lea because she is ranked among the