The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1916-09-28
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CONTENTION TO BE
RENEWED AFTER WAR
Japan Feels Restrictions on
Her People Are Unjust
UnderInternationalLaw

WASHINGTON, D. c., Sept. 81
Japan's purpose to renew, after the
European war, her contention for the
right of her people to emigrate to and
own land in the United States, suG.
gested in New York yesterday BY
Baron Yoshiro Sakatani, former
finance minister in the Tokyo cabinet
was frankly admitted today at the
Japanese embassy. Negotiations over
these questions, which came to dead.
lock two years ago. are not regarded !;
by Japan as concluded, 1t was ex. :
planned, but merely postponed while
the larger issues of the war are being !
dealt with.
The deadlock followed a long series
of conferences between former Secre-
tary Bryan and Baron Chinda, then
the Japanese ambassador, and an e1-
change of notes between the two gov
ernments over the alien land legisla-
! ton enacted by California. After the
State Department had pointed out
that under its constitution the United
States government could do no more
than seek TO prevent such legislation,
and that persons affected by It had
recourse to the Federal courts, Japan
! closed the exchanges with a note say.
! ing her complaint had not been an
swered, and reserving "for the pres
ent further discussion Of the issue"
| It has been generally assumed that
| the issue would remain in abeyance
only while Japan was occupied with
/ the war, but until now no one in po-
sition to speak with authority has SAID
| so. ya
! The position OF the Japanese gov.
ernment, according to informal state.
ments by embassy officials, still IS that
! restrictions on immigration and land
holding are not only derogatory to her
dignity, but are unjust under interna..
tional law in that they are discrimin.
atory against her in favor Of other na:5
i tions. Removal Of these restrictions,
! it is explained, are regarded as Japan's
third and final step in her rise to state
hood, the first two being the abolition
of extra territoriality and the negota-
/ ton Of commercial equality treaties.
Negotiations Friendly.
! The embassy believes the renewed
negotiations will be most friendly IN
character, officials declaring good
! relations with this country are looked
upon as combining with Japan's vital
| interests in China and. the alliance
with England to form the three card
inal points of Japanese foreign policy.
| Japan's present strained relations
with China regarding the Cheng Ch--
| tun clash the embassy expects to he,
settled shortly il way satisfactory
to both SIDES.
While it is admitted that the pres.
ent difficulties probably have put en-
the proposed s15000,000 Japanese
loan 10 China, it is said that Japan
will take her share in the $5O, O,0O0,00O4
loan proposed by the Chinese foreign
minister TO the group of English,
French, Russian, Japanese and Am
erican bankers. Japan is said to be
more than able to take her share OF
this loan because of the profits on
munitions sold to Russia. -;
Japanese policy towards the. pro-
posed trade war after the war will be-
outlined here Friday with the visit
of Baron Sakatan who Is Just backi
from the recent allied economic con
ference at Paris. The Baron will be
entertained at lunch by James Brown
Scott, Secretary of the Carnegie
Peace Endowment, and at dinner by
Tokich Tanaka, the Japanese charge:
Japan is said TO be deeply Interested; Z
in the proposed trade war, as !ner
participation in it is counted on to re-
move serious competition in China
her vital trade field.
The Pacific islands, north OF the !!
equator including the Caroline ana
Marshall groups which were seized
from Germany early in the war Will
be awarded TO Japan. according to me!
embassy view, at the peace conteS
ence.