The current issue of "Oriental Affairs" has an interesting article by Mr. H. Vere Rodman on the recent uprising in Tokyo. Mr, Rodman is of the opinion that comment on the actual effects of the change in Government be withheld until the new policy is put {nto direct operation, Mr. Redman's general conclusion is that:
2 manifestation of the youth movement, the urge for social and economic' justice, for the greater corporation of the state, and for the Increase of ts militant. strength, agptrations well nigh universal to-day, ave taken In Japan this characteristic and' cireumserived form. The objec= tive observer must be careful neither fo stress too much, nor to disregard completely, the politico-moral_-mystllam oF" the. professional "military Interest involved. Tuese give the Feeent Incidents thelt local form and Colour, but fundamentally te con Susion must be reached that there Is bot much that is new or unique Under the Sun, even the ising one.
The review contains other articles on the Municipal Elections, the action of the Canton Government in holding up the French airmail to Europe, and an examination of the relations between Soviet Russia and Outer Mongolia, the latter being particularly pertinent at the present moment.
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