Norwich bulletin., 1921-11-07
POLITICAL SITUATION
 IN JAPAN IS CRITICAL

Wellington Nov. CBy the A. P)-l Japan enters the week of the opening of | tte armament conference with a critical i political situation at home. with a na- tonal ccorouAc situation that is causing her leaders argreh ension, and with her relations w-th foreign powers. particular ly the United $ ates, Great Britain and China. vieewJ 1y her foreign office as at least open 10 Improvement.
 The pres nt situation is frankly attrib- uled by responsible Japanese to the fact a.at lu her rauid absorption of western civilization Japan has not realized the inevitable effect of that civilization upon l,- own c0untrymen who have awakened CD a spirit of liberalism and are demand ing moro from the state as individuals. Iegelo1el into an industrial nation from m agricultural one. Japan more and more dependent upon her industrial work l-s. is nuling them almost unsuitable in tleir demands and recalcitrant at time when the cost of living IS higher than in any other country and when the coun- try's manufactured products are with difficulty findinr a world market in com pes.iOu with tsose of other countries where labor is cheaper, where thrift has become a habE and where the workmans S efficiency is greater. The industrial sit uation in Japan is believed to be the cause of the prev alling unrest.
 In foreign political relations the Jap- arcsc people as a whole are entirely dis sl-isfed with the trend of affairs be- tween their country and the United States Everybody seems to realize the vague estrangement that has developed s.nce the epoch of the Russo-Japanese war when the Japanese felt that they en- ioyed the sympathy and approval of the American people.
 One great cause of that estrangement, Japanese explain. is the fact that it was Inc United States that constantly pro- tested. as Japan from time to time made political moves in connection with her expansion in the Far East. The effect of this was to produce upon Japanese minds the impression that America, and America alone. was becoming jealous oi jalsn's swift ascendency in the world and was attempting to check it.
 Tie Toisio correspondent of The Asso 2ated Press has been assured by respon E15le spokesmen that however much wal lslk may be indulged in by sensationa TapGnese. the real Japan knows the ne ,essity and urgency of removing all. feeling of arrangement and of returning .o the earlier days of friendly co-opera lion.
 Business leaders. during the voyag across the Pacific en route to Washing on. said:
 War with the United States is un shlnkable for us. For one thing, our lacl G natural resources would make it i'm possible"
 Otkers frankly referred to the absur ambitions of Japanese chauvinists an Eid that they were so .nsular that the ndged all world problems from tn T-andpoiut of Japan alone.
 The third matter of concern to Japan lse is understood to be the failure c British statesmen to agree upon a re iowal Of the alliance, or military pao with Japan. Irrespective of the questio Ls to what powers or power the anianc vas directed against, the agreement wa leemed of gres.d moral strength to Japa because it made her an ally of a gres white power. The old agreement COT 1nues automatically until denOunced | ather party, but both have agreed ths whenever it's terms are not in harmon with the covenant of the league of ns ions it Is tte covenant and not the all Lnce itself which shall prevail. Japane. lubEcists already call the alliance dead letter and consftser that a powe ul prop has been removed from und Japan.
 Japans relations with China have n materially improved and China, in i tate of Reorganization. is believed 1 iapanese to be a vital problem becau
 hs future of both as the great orient ,oweTs Is closely and intimately linke x The official Japanese delegation h. N,3-lnt the last few days in organizil
 br fi8e serious work of the conferene
 here are indications that the trae