Evening star., 1924-04-18

chiefly raw silk which has been the
nations economic backbone since the
war, has weight of world affairs
which China does not have. Conse-
quently the relations between Japan
and the United States mean more to
Japan in an international sense, as
we'll as national. than do her rela-
tions to any other nation.
United States Sees 1t Differently.
To Japan the American exclusion
clause is the one big issue of the
day affecting the nations entire posi-
tion and participation in world af-
fairs To the United States it is con-
Sidered merely one of the forty
one other nations whose emigration
is restricted.
The question OF 147 immigrants a
year from Japan, the number which
Mr.. Hanihara fixes as the result of
the working of the "gentlemen's
agreement" and which Japan is ready
to eliminate entirely, is hardly a fac
tor in the situation. Japan interprets
the legislation as based on racial and
national considerations. The United
States interprets it as based on in
dustrial and economic conditions.
japanese leaders who may under
sion their people, and there is no
channel to do so if they would. be-
cause, for chauvinistic Season, such an
Interpretation has been held before
the IOE years. -hOSI
Americans, except for the State De-
partment, consider it no more impor-
tant than the restrictions on any
other country and do not bother to try
to correct the Japanese impression
Resents Oriental Term.
Japan sees herself classed with the
excluded Chinese and Hindus. That
the United States has every right to
do so by its Constitution and its do
mestic control OF immigration she
cannot deny. Japan does not want TO
be classified before the world as an
or other foreign language newspapers
in Japan refer to the Japanese as ori-
entails retraction is usually request
ed. In the vcrnacular and Chinese
newspapers, the opposite interpreta-
ton is insisted upon, and Japan is
one of the oriental nations, the most
powerful one.
The dual attitude of Japan has
been occidental for the western world
the world at its own Interpretation
intended for far eastern consump-
tion. Japan does not throw her doors
open to immigration from India,
China or even Korea, which is a part
Of the empire. 1t is not a field where
unskilled labor from the United
States could compete. Nor is Ha-
waii, for that matter, and the sugar
planters are still to be heard from.
The foreign business men, mission
aries and few professional men
are distinctly there as representa-
tives of interests from their home
countries and not as part of Japan.
No Place for Immigrants.
Even if Japanese laws did not pre-
vent them from becoming part of
the country, the individual attitude
and the nationalist feeling would
crowd them out. There is no place
for the foreign unskilled worker
and the tenure of the skilled worker
is only temporary or in employment
by his own people.
Japan does not need a prohibitivs
emigration act against the west. Nor
does she insist on sending her emil
grants to the United States Figures
of overproduction and talks of re-
c1procal immigration and property
owning legislation are merely cam
outage. The real issue to Japan is
world politics and sentiment, both
extremely vital to her