Japan has virtuallly decided to Join the International Conference for Peace through Religions, to be held in Geneva in June or July next year, This became known at a reception tendered by many prominent Japanese to Mr. Yusuf Ah, 4 distinguished Indian, who arrived here as the representative of the international committee of the conference, charged with trying to secure Japanese support. At the reception, which became enlarged into the form of a meeting, it was decided to call together various religious organizations in Japan, to make definite plans for this conference.
Mr. Ah, in explaining the scope of the proposed international conference, said that it was not intended to discuss or criticize the internal affairs or beliefs of various religions, but to organize religious forces everywhere in the interests! of pence, The conference, he said, was originally promoted by the Clurch Peace Union of Great Britain and America, but the movement now has an independent eommittee, Tt was at first intended to hold the meeting in India, but suggestion that Geneva, the' seat of the League of Nations, was more appropriate found general favour. It is believed that Baron Sakatani,
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