The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-04
That Aabana State Begins To-day
Japanese Are ApprehensiUe
 But Think War Impossible
Think California Question Will
 Settle Itself if Left Alone, and Say Present Negotiations Are Confused With the Gen.
 eraI Question of Immigration
By Associated Press

Tokio, October 3-An inquiry into the situation between Japan and the United States by persons in high positions, who follow the trend of events in modern Japan but who may not be character ized as official has evolved the follow | ing as summarizing the situation grow l ing out of the proposed California anti Japanese measures:
 l. A genuine feeling of apprehension pervades responsible Japanese quarters , over the anti-Japanese movement in the United States because of the fear that it may lead to intensified exclusion movements against the Japanese else- where, especially in the British de- i mnions.
 2 The Japanese contend that if the Japanese question .n California is lett alone it will settle itself, because when the pre-settlers who cannot be natural i2ed either die or return to Japan, only their legal American posterity will re- main, who, in the course of generations, will be assimilated
 NEGOTIATIONS CONFUSED g. The Japanese contend that Ameri- cans are confusing the present negotia- tions, which are aimed at protecting the acquired rights of the Japanese now in California, with the general question ot ] immigration, which is not involved. 4. The Japanese maintain that the vot- ing of the California measure would add fuel to the anti-American sentiment created by America blocking what the Japanese call their legitimate and nee essary expansion in the Far East. espe- cally in China. This sentiment is being steadily engendered by anti-American articles in the Japanese newspapers.
 5. While genuinely alarmed at the anti Japanese moveInents abroad, the leading Japanese secretly are disturbed at the growth of the individuahst movement at home arising from the dissatisfaction Of the people over economic. conditions and poverty in large cities; the discontent Of laborers resulting from the absorption of social ideals of the west; hostility to- ward capital for lack of suitable oppor- tunty for personal progress.
 BOTH HOPE AND PROBLEM
 6. China remains Japan's greatest hope and her greatest problem Japanese leaders claim that the Americans are blocking Japanese progress in China and in the Far East generally. Japan must find an outlet and opportunities for her popula tion, which is increasing at the rate of 700,000 yearly said one official.
 { To direct question put by q corre- spendert whether war was 2 possibility, the reply of this official and of leading Japanese civilians unvaryingly Is that war with America is, of course, an iIn- possibility but that it was regrettabie that an arrangement m friendly reid- tions was within the range of possibility. The replies were unanimous that the Japanese believe the tune has arrived when they must speak out frankly in defense of our interests and say what we want to in the world,
 The importance that Japan gives to China is evidenced in d review of Jap Anese and American relations appearing in the Herald of Asia conservative weekly of Japanese thought. After man. taining that the California measures are based on prejudices born of differences in race reliigon and culture, this jour- nal declares that these prejudices ana the resultant attitude toward Asiaties are not confined to Americans, but arc common to all the white peoples. The greater contact Americans had with the Japanese and other Asiatics only ae- centuated the points of difference anu sharpened the edge of prejudice and dls- like this organ says.
 CAUSE WILL REMAIN
 After declaring that no compromise on the California question could appree1aois remove the Fundamental cause for wnioh if terms the mfSunderidnulis pet"c'" the two nations, the Herald of Asia de- .clares that the danger is increased ana rendered more acute by the extension ol anti-Japanese prejudices in far eastern fields. especially in China, where the Americans, with the willing co-opera'ion of the British, miss no opportunity 9t' showing up the Japanese in the "orSt possible light before the Chinese, mus irving to keep the two Asiatic nations estranged"
 The newspaper charges that the Amer jeans think that thus they advance thcir own economic and political interests, ou' it expresses the belief that one uas China will awaken to what it terms the common dangers imperiling the develop ment of the Asiatic races
 .When Asia awakens again to play its role in world history" says the newspa- ner ..every deed of injustice and un- merited provocation at the hands Of the egotistical nations in the west ineVi'apis will add to the combined bitterness or Asiatic sentiment toward the west.
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