The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1920-10-08
FEAR JAP HATRED
MAY SPREAD OUT
CALIFORNIA PROBLEM CAUSES
JAPS APPREHENSION.
GREAT UNREST Is PREVALENT
Expulsion Movement Against Orien
tails in United States May Reach
Other Foreign Countries.

AOhiO' All inquiry iUJO the Sltud-
don between Japan and abe United
States by persons in high position
who follow the trend of events in ia
pan, but who may not be character
lied as official, has evolved the fol-
lowing as summarizing the situation
growing out OF the proposed Califor-
mia ~antiJapanese measures:
Il. A genuine feeling of apprehen-
sion pervades responsible Japanese
quarters owe the a~nti-Japanese move
ments in the United States, because Of
the fear hat it may lead to intensified
exclusion movements against the Jap
anese elsewhere, especially in the Brit
ish dominioIs.
y. The Japanese contend that if
the Japanese question in California is
left alone ii will settle itself, because
when the present settlers who can
not be naturalized either die or re-
turn to Japan only their legal Amer
lean posterity will remain, who, in
the course OF generations, will be as
simulated.
%. The Japanese people contend
that the Americans are confusing the
present negotiations. which are aimed
at protecting the acquired rights Of
the japanese now in California with
the general question of immigration,
which is not involved.
a. The Japanese maintain that
the voting OF the California measure
would add fuel to the anti-American
sentiment created by America, block
ing what the Japanese call their legi-
Innate and necessary expansion in the
Tar east, especially in China and ST.
IBERIA. This sentiment is being stead
fly ~engendered by anti-American ar
t;clcs in the Japanese newspapers.
%. While genuinely alarmed at the
M ti-Japanese movement abroad, the
eaGsing Japanese secretly are dis
urbeNd at the growth Of the Individual
LIST Involvement at home arising from
disqualification OF the people over
he e~condImic and political conditions
poverty in large cities; the discon-
tent of labdACer ~gesulting from the alb
sorption of social ideas from the west;
hostility to capita lism; lack of suit
able opportunity flor personal progress
and a tendency tb blame the nations
for Inability to check what
they term JaparA's isolation from the
rest Of the world.
sc. China rYmains Japan's greatest
hope and herJ greatest problem. Jap
enese leaderS claim that Americans
are blocking! Japanese progress in
China and Jpn the far east generally.
Japan must find an outlet and oppor-
tunities fof her population, which is
increasing at the rate Of 700, 600 year
ly.' said pne official.
~. To- a direct question put by a
correspchdent whether wal was a pos
sibilitI the reply of this official and
of Leading Japanese civilians unvary-
mgN is that war with America is, of
coArse, an impossibility, that it was
.regrettable that an estrangement in
friendly relations was within the
range of possibility. The replies were
unanimous that the Japanese believe
the time has arrived when they must
speak out frankly in defense of our
interests and say what we want to in
the world"
Another person in an interview add
ed this:
you Americans should remember
that il you have a political situation
at home we also have one in Japan"