Views on Methods in Japan "Since my arrival in England I have been reading, amongst other things, George Lansbury's 'Open Letter to the Prince of Wales.' It is very good, but I must teil you that if any man dared +o write such a letter to our Prince he would surely die the editor of Koshin Murobuse, who is undertaking a world tour.
Questioned by a "Daily Herald" reporter regarding the progress of lism in Japan, the editor of of Jism in Japan was Mr. S. Katyama, who for the past two years has been residing in America, where he is recognized as an exponent of Communism.
"The. Socialist movement was de: veloping rapidly in Nippon up to 10 years ago, when the persécutions (culminating in, the secret trials, the hanging of 10 and the imprisonment of 30 Socialist leaders) drove all propaganda underground. As a consequence, there was practically no ostensible movement in Japan for more than 10
"At the end of the great European war, however, there was a re-birth of all progressive ideas. Trade unionism an to make headway, and Socialism naturally shared in the revival. Socialist thought is steadily and inevitably permeating the Jananess people.
Rep in, Att Sx "We have, in my country, ever: shade of Socialist thought repre sented. The Socialist League braces all schools, and we have in addition small organizations of Anarchists, Syndicalists, -and Moderates. But the mos popular organizations are those of the Guild Socialists and Communists.
"Naturally, the bureaucracy does] off not encourage the spread' Socialist ideas.
The pital ist class there, as in ye own England. values its loos above your liberty. At the present moment there are six professors and men of letters undergoing of imprisonment.
"A notorious case of water supply, labour and transport! Professor Monte, of the Imperial) that of writing an article on Kropotkin in one of the university journals. This article sought, quite an academic way, to analyse Anarchist Communism as aught by Peter Kropotkin- The Professor was sentenced to two months' imprisonment.
"Another case is that of Mr. Kimura, professor at Waseda University, who one day had a sheet of paper put into his hand by a newspaper man. The leaflet, was an attack upon the Emperor of Japan, and was published by the Bolshevik Party in Korea For showing the sheet to some of his friends, Professor Kimura was sentenced to six months' imprisonment.
"Persecution of this sort," Mr. Murobuse added, "creates bitterness, but does not exterminate Socialist thought or even propa-
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