The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-04-03
JAPANESE, GOOD And BAD
FNGLISH VISITOR TALKS OP
gHFIR BUSINESS WAYS.

81 heusaIi Vas aAsec Thers > Years eaA
Hns q .IaDAnese wnfe Wh~'B naAAEiRg
Ser First Nlsli E1ere-N New SsenaraeiSa
over There % CSacetted. We sayu-
Ernest Kendall. an EnGlishmAn who
has lived twelve wears in japan. arrived
a, ,he Ir,u@riai from Yokohama yestsr-
nav With him - his wife. Who 10 Jap
ape-s Than sort ~ Anglo-Japaneaa ALI
Anca Mr. hemdal thinks ~ all night. hut
- for vhe one between his country and
.IapAn he asssYts that " that agreement
O.. renewed after the expiration OF the
term " has To run h~ viii az once take out
rapers and become an American citizen.
Mrs Kendall va q widow Before her
srst marriage she was = Miss Roma
Namaurs Mr. Kendall hAs a grown son
Nv his frst wife This l. the first time
thar the present Mrs. Kendall has bssn
ous Of her own country and shs finds it
dihtcult % get used 80 the change. In
,he first place the steamship made one
90 terribly SeAslck Then tho long train
yide made ono 20 Awtully trAinrick. Then
the changing OF rho loose and comfortable
Limono for the steel lined parAphernAiiA
81 the American woman ~as = hardship.
And when one has been used to Japanese
food al ones life the meats and sauces
! Of the Americana are a terrible thing %
tackle
But Nrs Kendall - trying 20 b phil
esophScal she - amazed AZ the sise Ot
everything ~ New York. and when they
rArne over the prsiries. after seeing almost
svery day miles and milee ot what sp-
reared 90 be good land without a settler.
che wondered according TO her husband.
Why With 80 much room Va couldn't let
lust q fes- japanese come over here and
live.
I have been the only man IN my par
seulsr line 81 huan~-- IN IN" FAR Fast,
aid Mr. Kendall Yesterday. All big
business IN Japan With foreign cities 10
dors to-day nv cable. and ] know OF ono
big house which rpends s. 600 gold .
month ilaT 10 cables 80 ! got the idoA
Of doing cable code work, and have been
engaged in ~ for eight or ten years. ]
have come 20 New York under contract 20
revise The codes of several Of your biggest
corporation
4 used to teach IN MAsedA University.
which 10 the school attended by tho
young Japanese mobiles. and which N
known ~ the Emperors own private
school Before ! left England ! bad
I have lived in Toxic. Yokohama and
kob~ amt s.s a place Of residence prefer
the latter II ~ built on "a hillside by the
SEA Yokohama IN a rambling sort OF
place and except tor the two bluhs
- built on an old rice field on made ground
a serious thing for IN. foreign colony
has Just hapIened IN Yokohama Ihey
have had Tor many years a recreauon
ground, where football. baseball. cricket
and tennis we're played with fine pavilion
and turf that has taken forty yers to
ret into its present condition. The lease
vsus taken on periods Of ten years. and
Whsu the last period was up in October
the Japanese refused tn renew the lease
Ind gnation meetings were held. hut
tn no purpOe-. ana now the most at
fractivs feature OF life there ~ gone.
'ns reason why the lease has been taken
away - that land - becoming 30 valu-
able
Then the japanese everywhere are
suffering from the want OF money. and
they are doing everything they can to
GET ~ The foreigner In business VIII o
doesnt know the Japanese language
has 10 employ = bAnto. which word
means interpreter but the banto 10
really a go-between. He gets his squeeze
cut Of both the foreigner and the Japanese
With whom the foreigner does business.
u often happens that the banto gets
away with a lot ~ money. The business
QUESTION ont there - very complicated.
Why. u you want to do any great
amount OF business You absolutely
must give a gsishA spree, and even then
your competitor who Offers the banto
. larger perceotAge may get the order.
know whereof speak. because for thres
year. 7 was oDnn~cted With one OF the
biggest house in Japan The big Japa-
uese houses often pretend % undsrbid
each other and then square the deal
AfteTwArd
You NAV take Il from me that the
Japaness dislike foreigners thoroughly.
and u they could do u without getting
iato trouble they would kick every for
s,gner out ~ the country. Thew have
q sort OF innate jealousy Of any body who
can DO something they cannot, and when
thew trnk that they can do AZ well a.
ne fore Sner they have employed they
discbarge hlm They are nov replacing
the foreign captains and engineers OF
their merchant ships a. fast as they can
train up Young Japanese To take their
places JIs-d To- hear the japanese
teachers ~ rhe university discussing
eettng I'D ~ the foreigners on their
E'ah
Their succasssz 10 two wars have made
The Iapanese thoroughly conceitsd. They
believe thev have only got 90 make Bag
effort aud they can conquer tbs world.
You do not hear them express this opinion
befors foreg ners. II you say. to draw
them oIi You fellows will conquer the
vorli some day. you get no reply, but
each looks az the others signihcantly.
-
~ hear - hat they really think on the sub
lNrt
Toxic has changed enormously since
I vent there Then for the public there
rAs nothing bur ramshAckle horse cars
Cor gsttinR about but nov they have an
slec'yic rrsmvay eervice that IL not ct
.-lled any-v hare and y on can 60 anywhere
YOU WISH for two and a half cents The
young people. 10th men and women. are
rad Tor foreign clothes. and II - the am
Htior ~ every young man 90 own . Euro
pean suit and for every young woman %
get a ElropeAn dress with pair Of cor
aets The number ~ those who confine
themselves 20 the native KArb 10 fast
shrinking Toxic - cutting away block
Al,er clock 10 double the width 81 sovne II
~ stress. All the approaches 90 the
proposed eNposItion will rs three times a.
vide az Broadway. In the private houses
The people are going in for ioreign fur
uiture and tho Toxic householder Who
cannot boast ~ AZ least one foreign room
80 he house " considered not At all
fashionable
Things are 90 the jump there. Evsn