Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-11-07
UNREST GROWING
AMONG JAZZ PANESE
AN D SITUATION
! BECOMES ACUTE
NlipponeSe Enter the Week
I Of the Opening of the
4 Arms Limit Conference
With a Crisis at Home,
C0UNTRYMEN AWAKEN
TO LIBERAL SPIRIT
Workers Are Almost Insati-
able in Their Demands
and ReCaICitrant at a
Time When Living is High
GBy The Associated Press.)

Washington, Nov. 6 (by the AS
(. sociated Press. Japan enters the
week of the opening of the arma-
ment conference with critical po-
litlcal situation at home, with a
national economic situation that is
causing her members apprehension
and with her relations with for
elgn powers, particularly the Unit
ed States, Great Britain and China,
viewed by her foreign office as at
least open to improvement.
Many of the ablest Japanese are
either in Washington or in the
United States engaged in helping
their country find its true place in
the world.
Demand Moro I'rom state.
The situation is attributed by
responsible Japanese to the fact
that in her rapid absorption of
western civilization, Japan has not
realized the inevitable effect of that
civilization on her own country
men, who have awakened to a spirit
of liberalism and are demanding
more from the state. Developed
into an industrlaI nation from an
agricultural one, Japan, more and
more dependent on her industrial
workers, is finding them almost
Unsuitable in their demands and re-
calcitrant at a time when the cost
of living is higher than in any
other country and when the coun-
try's manufactured products are,
with difficulty, finding world
market in competition with those
of other countries, where labor is
1H st l. H.. lNs
and where the workman's eff
cheney is greater.
The industrial situation is be-
lieyed to be a cause of the unrest.
Political Relations.
In foreign political relations, the
Japanese, as whole, are dissatis-
fled with the trend of affairs be-
tween their country and the United
States. Everybody seems to real
ize the vague estra ngement that
has developed since the Russo-Jap-
anese war, when the Japanese felt
they enjoyed the sympathy and APP
proval of the American people,
One great cause OF that estrange-
1nent. Japanese explain, is the fact
that it was the United States tha<
constantly protested as Japan made
political moves in connection with
her expansion in the Far East. The
effect of this was to produce on
Japanese minds the impression that
America was becoming jealous of
Japan's swift ascendancy and was
attempting to check it. This idea
is frequently voiced in the press of
Japan, where politicians claim their
country has done no more than
other nations. ..-..
Knowledge Insufficient.
There is reason to believe that
the coming of SO many represen-
tative Japanese to the United
States represents, for one thing
thing, a sincere effort to get in
touch with the rest, because Japan.
associated with the occident for
scarcely more than half a century,
has now come to the realization
that her knowledge of the occi-
dent and all that it stands for, is
insufficient. She is, it Is under
stood, ready to submit her case
frankly to the representatives of |
the powers assembled at Washing |
ton.
The Toxic correspondent of the |
Associated Press has been assured |
by responsible spokesmen that |
however much war talk may be |
INDUCED in by sensational Jap
anese, the real Japan knows the |
urgency of removing any feeling
of estrangement and of returning |
to the days of friendly co-opera-
tion.
Business leaders, while en- route
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