The New York herald., 1921-09-30
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bsen provoked by envy and jealousy
among the white people OF the Pacific
coast States.
y Consequently, it Is not at all sur
prising that California is ansthema to
the average Japanese, and when k<.
talks of war against the Unisr
States he really means California. ss.s
last United States census showed t2f&.
there were approximately 125. ozs Jap
rz@aS in the United Sfxses, of whom
~aYr1- - ,0es are scattered over Cali
Srnia, Oregon and Washington.
Get Prosperous in ". >.
Reports brought back by Japanese
citizens visiting the home OF their an
cestors or their own birthplace tend
to show that the Japanese are becon-
ing very Irssperous in the United
States. which, of course. means tn
: Pacific coast. I,''cording to some of
the reports published in the Japanese
newspapers many of the hotels of
Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los
Angeles and other Pacific coast CEN
tres, as we'll as restaurants, are either
owned by Japanese or controlled
through white dummies.
The effect of these reports has been
4 to give the Japanese an exaggerated
idea Of the prosperity which has come
to their people who have taken resi-
dence in America Any suggestion that
the Japanese remaining at home be
denied the right to emigrate to the
United States, or any other part OF the
world for that matter, naturally pro-
vokes deep and bitter resentment. The
decision of California to prevent the
Japanese from owning land in that
State in the future is merely consid-
cred another reason for immediate ac-
ton by the Japanese Government 10
insist upon a settlement of the long
djspute over the racial problem
The fact that the Japanese law does
not permit foreigner to own land In
the Mikado's domain is entirely lg-
pored bv the Japanese themselves. In
Japan. foreigners as individuals are
not allowed TO own any land. but 1u-
dicial persons presumably domestic
corporations) enjoy this right even
though they include no japanese mem
bers or resident. Foreigners are per-
mitted as individuals to lease land Tor
a Term of fifty years on an equal loot
,nc with natives and to also hold the
,-,gbt of superficies' for limited periods
Tn addition to these rights, foreigners
i, Japan are given the right of lease
in perpetuity, which was estaphsheo
in the days when an exterritorlahty
was exacted of foreign nations.
samples OF Viewpoint.
n rha Iananese at home admits of no
,,oonsistency in the fact that 26,sSS
acres are owned by Japanese individ-
,,aIs in california and that not a sin
eIe ,ndividual foreigner is permitted TO
go, :, foot of land in Japan. He con-
saa- ~ anomaly IN the fact that
47,7S1 acres in California are 49, ~"
bv American corporations controiieo
by Japanese capital, and tnat very
few, IL any. foreigners-cerlail ~
Americans-are represented III w
porations owning land in japan.
The Japanese at home rc1uses -
see that it makes any direrencs
cause unskilled foreign laborers any
not permitted to reside In terrilory
dominated by the japanese IN Man
churia. Shantung and other Chinese
provinces in which the Mikado's Gov
ernment has obtained concessions.
In the opinion of the Japanese
stay-at-homes the policy adopted py
the American Government in Hawaii
is "rs,uch more honorable" than that
which it permits the State of Callior-
MA to apply. Statistics printed by tho
Toxic newspapers recently show that
there are more than 10000 japanese
in the Hawaiian Islands, many tnou-
sands of whom own land there.
The unrestricted admission to Date
of Japanese into the Hawaiian Islands
has largely been due to the difficulty
Of obtaining native labor capable OF
manning the sugar plantations. There
are believed to be about one-haif as
MANY Chinese as Japanese In the
islands Both are industrious and pros
perous and rear large families
More than so per cent. of the popu-
,ation az Oahu, on which Honolulu is
situated, is Japanese. During the
twenty years career of Hawaii as
Territory of the United States the
birth rate among the Japanese has ex-
ceeded the rate among Hawaiians. The
increase among the Japanese has
alarmed some of the white citizens OF
Hawaii. and there have been one or
rwo hostile demonstrations against
them. all of which has been duly com
municated to the japanese stay-at-
homes and has contributed to the rap
idly mounting degree OF resentment
against the United States.
Dominion Restrictions.
The Japanese. who regard the Brit
ish people as their friends, have re-
Gently begun to turn the vials OF
their wrath against Canada and Aus
tralia The Canadian Government re-
Gently adopted the policy of limiting
Japanese immigration to 200 persons
year The Government of the British
Columbia province has even gone FUR
ther and denied admission to Japanese
holding passports sanctioned by the
Dominion Government. Several of the
most important newspapers In British
Columbia have printed sensational
stories to prove that the Japanese arc
becoming quite as offensive In that
part of tho country as they arc held TO
be in California.
The recent declaration OF Premier
Hughes OF Australia that the people OF
his country are in thorough sympathy
with the California view Of the Japa-
nese immigration problem and that
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