The Hawaiian gazette., 1911-09-12
NATIONS COULD
NOT CO TO WAR
shImada Tells Local Audience
Japan Needs America for
a Market.

Declaring that japan IL not war.
like nation and that Il must In is own
interests, commercial and otherwise.
preserve peace with the United States.
the Hon s. shimada OF the Japanese
parliament n passenger ON the shinyo
Maru, yesterday secuted the idea OF
war between the two nations in a
lengthy address at the Japanese con.
sulate.
He also stated that there was as
much Misunderstanding in Japan about
the attitude of the United States as
there was in the United States over
Japan.
At home, he said, they had all read
with alarm about the Notifications in
Hawaii and the hostility to. Japanese
manifested in California but upon his
arrival here he had heard nothing ex.
cept harmony between the races, with
nothing in the military preparations to
warrant the alarm felt in Japan. Since
leaving his own country, he said, he
had neither heard nor seen anything to
form basis for the stories that they
were continually reading in the Japan
csc press and elsewhere.
Where he had expected war talk he
heard only of amity, and added that to
learn the true status of affairs it was
as necessary to be educated through
the eyes as through the ears.
Just MISUNDERSTANDING
The two peoples have not come suffi-
GENTLY InfO nd 60. h,A
misunderstanding continually arose.
and he presumed that ON the part of
the American people the same misun-
derstanding regarding Japan s Gag. !.
gresslve policy was apparent as that
IN Japan about the United States
preparations for invasion.
Foreigners, he said, contend that
Japan is warlike nation, but this he
denied and quoted the history of the
country during 260 years of feudal gov
eminent, during which period Japan
engaged in no wars, internal or foreign
lie asked if any European nation of the (
same period could show similar rec
ord, and then added that whereas wars
formerly arose over royal accession and (
succession, they now occurred only over
economic causes.
ihuS ne said that since Japan had
been opened" to the world it had
twice engaged in foreign conflict, once
with China and once with Russia. He
stated that the latter war arose over
the refusal of Russia to admit neutral
zone between Korea and Manchuria.
Needs the Market.
Continuing in the same strain he
called attention to the fact that japan J
Is virtually under the necessity of
maintaining peace with the North
American power, as out of a trade of
$3.50, 100000, $4,000, 900 was with the
United States and that should the war
occur between the two nations Japan
csc silk would have no market, an eco.
nomlc condition, he said, which had to
be avoided. While in case of war. he
added, it might be that silk would be !
so cheap in Japan that everyone could
dress in it, but such would be the case
only at the expense of the stomach.
He then advised the local Japanese
that if they intended to become Ameri
Fan citizens they should become loyaI
american citizens, and uttered an ex.
remedy drastic definition of what pa
'rlotism, such as he meant, is.
Mr.. Shimada was followed on the
platform by Doctor Nitobe, who adj
iressed himself more to the Younger
'iement in his audience than, did his
Predecessor.
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