'The arrival of Comrade Jacob' Jansen, Soviet Trade Representative, /attached to the Soviet Embassy, at the end of the year, is in many] Jquarters expected to facilitate the development of Japanese trade with Russi In a written statement _handed to the press on his arrival Comrade} Jansen, however, treats the question lof this development in very cautious Language, and without any of those claims which Soviet agents are in the habit of making. After.describing the reasons for his appointment.to Japan, he says, "Besides purely trade: questions there are many questions of an industrial-economical character. All thes tasks are of such a serious nature -lthae it is important for both sides that in the settling of them all interested circles and persons of both sides should participate." He does not see any prospect of a rapid development of Russo-Japanese economic relations, but believes tha' the "Economic structure of each party is a guarantee that a close business contact will be established."
The Korean Question Future relations between Japan and Korea form the subject of a series of articles which Count M. Soyeshima, former member of the Upper House of Japan, has written, in his capacity of Editor of the "Keijo Nippo," a Japanese-language newspaper published in Seoul.
In the articles, which have excited siderable attention and common: in Japan, Count Soyeshima frankly feriticises' the prevailing views as to the course the relations between the two countries should take.
These views may be said to take two directions, one that the Koreans should be given a quota of membership in the Imperial Diet, while the Jother favours "the principle of political assimilation with the Kore-ang on ethnological, historical, and Jother grounds.'
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