The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-10-08
PANESE SEEK
LAND FROM.
MEXICO
Counselor Of Embassy Here
On Tour to Get Data for
Colonization Schemes
By LLOYD LEHRBAS,
international News Service.

Japan is once more dreaming
of colonizing Mexico. Angered
and Inundated through the pro-
visions of the new immigration
act which effectively blocks fur
Their immigration into the United
States continually on the diplo-
matte defensive as result Of her
efforts to colonize Manchuria
and secure an impregnable foot
hold on the Asian mainland, and
against stone wall in disposing
Of her surplus population, Tokyo
is again seeking "place in the
sun" in America for her human
overflow.
Counselor IN Mexico.
That Japan, through events of the
last year, has once more been forced
to seek feasible colonization
scheme in Mexico, became known
today when Eiichi Kimura, coun.
selor of the Japanese embassy here,
left on an extensive trip through
Mexico that will. carry him to every
part of the country over every rail-
road and give him an opportunity TO
study the entire question with even
more exactitude than previous jap.
anese investigators.
Kimura's mission, It is said. viii
be to discover some way in which a
successful Japanese experimental
colony can be set up in northern
Mextco--a problem that is still un-
solved despite the fact that Japanese
attaches of the Tokyo government
have made innumerable trips into
Mexico to study.
Stopped by Cheap Labor.
Although Mexico has an irnmigra.
ton act which follows the general
lines of the American act which ex.
cludes Chinese "coolie'' or laborinR
classes, there is no bar to Japanese
immigration at present.
Japanese immigration has never
been success there, however, be.
cause OF the great mass of Mexican
cheap labor with which the Ian.
anese have been unable to completes.
At the present time, despite the
numerous attempts Japan has made
to send a large part Of her over
flow population to Mexico. there are
approximately only 5000 JAPANESE
in, the entire country.
None are laborers, all being small
traders or merchants, and profes.
sional men.
Beaten by the natural conditions
existing there Japan some time ago
apparently gave up her ambition fo
make northern Mexico a .dumning
ground" for her surplus populafion
but as a result Of the. new Amer.
lean immigration law, the hostility
against Japanese immigration that
has manifested itself in Canada.
and Australia and the chanoing
conditions that have been brought
about in Asia by the strong come.
hack being staged by the Russian
Soviet the japanese have apparent
~ been forced to again cast a
calculating eye on Mexico.
Time Ripe, Is Belief.
Japan made distinctly friendly
gesture toward Mexico CITY when
1t instituted inquiries concerniY1rr
purchasing needed supplies there in.
stead Of in the United States ut the
time the anti-American boycott was
being organized following the ex-
clusion act, and It is believed the
time is now ripe for another diplo.
1natic fcray with Representatives.
colony somewhere In northern
Mexico as the ultimate object.
Counselor Kimura's extensive and
exhaustive report on the situation
when he returns from mis- survey
will, to a large extent, be guide.
post to Tokyo.