New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-10-14
TOK|O'S MAYOR ARRIVES
BRINGS Greeting from Former
Visitors to Mayor Gaynor.
LAND or COMMENTED WOMEN
Nine. Ozaki Tells Why Japanese
Women Don't Go In for
Politics O. Clubs.

The MAYOR Of Toxic came TO town yes
te-eav and lost no time in having chat
with the Mavo~ q New York The head of
the Jsnanese municipality is Yuklo OzaKi.
He arrived here from Southampton on the
White S-ar liner Adriatic. accompanied by
his wife. who was educated in England and
speaks English just as We'll as the snip
news reporters who we're searching FOR an
Interpreter Yesterday when they learned
the MAYOR OF Toxic was passenger.
The MAYOR and his wife have been max
ing trfn through Europe. and viii try
to get an idea Of this country from train
window as they speed west to san Fran
cisco, where they VIII embark for Japan.
Il am not q stranger to this city" said
Mayor Ozaki. Il was here in 1889. when I
was a political exile. think I could find
my way to the City Hall"
The subject of municipal graft was con-
jured I'D for the Toxic executive, and he
barely seemed TO recognize the word. While
he told of the absence of graft IN Toxic
his wife expressed her Gisapprovai of the
militant methods Of procuring votes tor
women.
on behalf Of the japanese honorary Com
merciaI Commission which visited New
York in 1903 he presented to Mayor Gay
nor for the city n beautifully Illuminated
address of appreciation, worked in silk. on
a silk background. the whole of exquisite
workmanship. It was suitably framed and
hung UP in the Mayors Office.
Mayor and Mrs. Ozaki viii call on Pres
ident and Mrs Taft in Washington. and on
their return to New York on October Is
will be the guests of honor at a dinner to
be given that evening at the Hotel Astor
by the Japan Society of New York.
Nine. Sukio Ozaki does not think tina,
politics is womans sphere.
A woman should take care Of her
home" she said. in her pleasant. low fun
voice. II do believe that women should
have equal rights with men. especially in
regard 70 divorce laws. But the Japanese
women do not want to take part in the
government. We hear nothing Of woman
suffrage there. The vote would be a very
good thing for American women. perhaps
but I think II well for Japanese women 10
limit their activities. as they do, to char
tiles and educational matters
We have no women-s clubs in YOUR
sense, bur we have many women's societies.
and if I served on all the committees 7 am
asked TO join I'd have no time for my home
and little daughters
Japanese marriages are marriages Of
convention she said. but 7 think they
turn out as happily as the other kind. But
Japanese girls are brought up with a great
sense Of duty. They are taught that trouble
and difficulty are part Of the days work. so
if trouble comes there IS no disappointment
The young men of Japan look much more
for pleasure.
The woman gives way 10 the man. al
waEs-thet she has been taught from her
earliest childhood But the girl isn't alto
gether subiect-if she objects to the hus-
band her parents have picked ont for her
she is not compelled to marry him
Nine. Ozaki says that her husband is
very strenuous" Everywhere We go he
is studying government she said And
we have been TO many places since We left
Japan, on May 10, We shall stay only a
day in New York and then we go to Wash
ington and thence to San Francisco. on our
way home. It is a busy place-New York
Ny head whirls with the rush of it
In Toxic they elect a Mayor only once
IN six years. and as this is the present
Mayors second term. he felt" Nine. Ozaki
said that he was entitled to a holiday