Arizona republican., 1920-10-04
JAPANESE THINK. CALIFORNIA LAW. II1G0EAsEEG ANTI. A|NE ER|CAN SPIRIT
Japan's Economic Difficult ties Add To Distress of Orientals - H ave No Thought of War
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TOXIC, Oct. S.-An inquiry into the situation beteen Japan and the United States by persons in high position who follow the trend of events in modern Japan, but who may not be character ized as official, has evolved the fol- growing out of the proposed California anti-Japanese measures:
 First, a genuine feeling of apprehen- sion pervades responsible Japanese quarters over the anti-Japanese move ments in the United States because of the fear that it may lead to intensi fled exclusion movements against the Japanese elsewhere. especially in the British dominions.
 Second the Japanese contend that if the Japanese question in California is left alone it will settle itself, be- cause when the present settlers. who cannot be naturalized. either die or return to Japan, only their legal American posterity will remain, who, in the course of generations, will be assimilated.
 Third. the Japanese contend that Americans are confusing the present negotiations. which are aimed at pro- tecting the acquired rights of the Japanese now in California with the general question of immigration, which is not involved.
 Anti American Feeling in Japan
 Fourth, the Japanese maintain that the voting of the California measure would add fuel to the anti American sentiment created by America blocking what the Japanese call their legal right to expansion in the Far East, espec- ially in China and Siberia This sem timsnt is being steadily engenaered by anti-American articles in the Japanese newspapers.
 Fifth. while genuinely alarmed at the anti-Japanese movements abroad. the leading Japanese secretly are disturbed at the growth of the individuaiisi movement at home arising from the dissatisfaction of the people over the economic and political conditions and poverty in large cities: the disconteni of laborers resulting from the absorp- tion of social ideas from the West hostility to capitalism; lack of suitable opportunity for personal progress and a. tendency to blame the nations lead | CTS for inability to check what the. term Japan's moral isolation from ths rest of the world.
 China Jap's Hope and Problem Sixth. China remains Japans great est hope and her greatest problem Japanese leauerS cldAlfn lldt NAic AhiiSii T cans are blocking Japan's progress il China, and in the Far East generally Japan must find an outlet and oppor tunities for her population. which | l increasing at the rate of 100000 year ly," said one official.
 Seventh, to a direct question put D,
 a correspondent whether war was possibility the reply of this officia and of leading Japanese civilians un
 varingly is that war with America. i:
 of course. an impossibility. that 1t wa
 regretable that an astrangement |
 friendly relations was within the rang
 of possibilities. The replies wer
 unanimous that the Japanese believ
 the upe has arrived when they mus
 "speae out frankly in defense of ou
 interests and say what we want to i
 the world"
 Another person in an intervie' { added to this:
 "You Americans should remembe that if you have a political situatio at home, we also have one in Japan"