Tokyo, Oct. 12.
At a time when nearly every writer or politician of any note in Japan is content to say: "Yes, Yes" to the dogmas that the military clique and its satellites are "laying down for Japan, it is more than a little refreshing to come across two articles which are. comparatively outspoken and which approximate closer to the Teal truth of what has been, and is, going on in this part of the world, One of these appears in the "Nippon Kokumin" (The Japanese Nation) and is from the pen of Mr. Asao Hisashi, Chief Secretary of the newly-amalgamated proletarian Ins party. Mr. Asao Hisashi st trip of inspection ind is firmly of the opinion "the present Man churian trouble is a play got up by Japan from beginning to end. A play," he goes on, "would be enjoyable enough if it were played by good actors, but in this case, many of the principal actors (the Mi choukuo Statesmen and patriots") are all poor mummers and the thing is extremely dull as n consequence."
Mr, Hisashi proceeds to point out that 30 years and more have elapsed since Japan secured a foothold in Manchuria, and yet, he says, Japan is reduced to the farce of pretending: that Manchuria is Japan's life-line and. makes an undue fuss about it. Nothing, he insists, so glaringly and fundamentally illustrates how things are not handled rationally in Japan.
"We have a proverb," he contines, "about making. a rope after catching sight of a thief. Tt refers to want of preparedness, a lack of habitual effort for. the rational adjustment of difficulties, and juried makeshift, which is only too often followed by vacant neglect and inattention." prepared a cites As illustrations of this want of many examples, For instance, the Hyochokal' the Society for Harmonizing Labour and Capital, was born after the fierce and savage rice riots of 1919; t donate Yen 3,000,000 for the relief of the unemployed. The dastardly allegedly in connection with agrarian unrest and the threat of thousands of farmers to_march into the capital scared the Govern ment which then immediately set to work to devise measures for the relief of the agrarian community, Yet, he says, with the exception of 4 great deal of paper resolutions, things have been cooly left much as they were, "until perhaps there is a fresh crop of assassination,' same, he believes, will be the ease even with Manchutia.
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