Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-07-30

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TOKYO. - The negotiations be-
tween the United States and Japan
ever the California land bin stirred
up in Japan widespread discussion by
publieists and preachers of the broad
subject of the future of Japan in her
relations with the countries of the
west
This discussion showed an earnest
effort TO seek the causes of the dis
elimination against Japanese in Cali
Ffornia and in other places, including
Canada and Australia. Some conserv-
alive newspapers criticised what they
claimed to be the practice Of Japanese
authorities in California in eneourag-
ing the registration of children born
of Japanese parents as future subjects
of the Japanese empire. instead OF
allowing them TO become, as they
would, citizens of the United States.
Considerable publicity is given here
to an article by Rev. Danjo Ebina. a
Christian pastor and editor-in-chiefr of
the Shinjin magazine. The clergy
man argued that the question between
Japan and the United States was not
one that would end with those two
countries, but one that would develop
eventually between Japan and Can
ada, between Japan and the countries
of South America indeed. anywhere
the Japanese might flourish. He de-
clared that the great cause of Japan
ese isolation was the insistence upon
ancestor-worship, and contended that
the great solution of the whole ques-
ton was a patient campaign to OBJ
tain the right of naturalization in
America.
Must the Japanese live everywhere
as sojourners," DR.. Ebina asked, Tive
everywhere as strangers and foreign
ers, everywhere except where they
have conquered? The development Of
our race demands that this should not
be so.
The abandonment of ancestor-wor-
ship and the adoption of a cosmopoli-
tan faith are needed, he says, to en-
able the Japanese to assimiliate
abroad and thus open up a new uni
verse for the Japanese race through
out the world.
Unity of thought between east and
west is pleaded for IN the first annual
report of the Association Concordia Of
Japan, which includes some of the
leading men of the empire in educar
tional, scientific and business fields.
The association declares that, al
though in its more superficial aspects
the intercourse between the east and
west is growing increasingly intimate
and their scientific interests are be-
coming wider, there is still a sad fail
ure on each side to appreciate the
deeper things of the spirit which un-
Gerlie the life of the other. Without
any doubt the removal of causes of
irritation as regards political and COM
mercial affairs is an imperative duty,
hut the creation Of reciprocal SYM
Iathy is equally urgent if Japan and
the United States would lay secure
foundations for international peace
and goodwill.
The report contends that henceforth
no nation can maintain its life apart
from the onward movement of the
worlds thought and that the worlds
civilization will hereafter flow in one
strong current.
Inasmuch as such problems as immi-
grafton and colonization complicate
relations and endanger the peace and
progress of the world by unduly en-
phasizing national and racial differ
ence, the association holds that it is
imperative to foster mutual sympathy
and sense of common interest. 1t
will strive therefore to promote a
deeper sympathy and respect between
the two great civilizations.
This work viii take the practical
form of the publication of a review,
with the object of building the current
thought, the establishment of the lee
ture courses, the interchange of visits
Of distinguished scholars representing
the best thought of the east and the
west, and finally of international con-
crosses. The association will also CO..
operate with various International
bodies of similar kind in facilitating
Investigations and in accelerating
! friendly intercourse among nations