The Archive · 1933

America and Japan

Truculent_ Chauvinist's Pamphlet For Political Nostrums In United States Frost Ov Own Tokyo, Sept. immigration law permitting Japan-Amendment of the, American She te enter the United States on quota basis, a free hand for Japan th Asia and a aval strength equal set forth by Mz. Ryohel Uchida Indispensable if better relations are to" prevail. between" Japan and Amerien." His views. have been set forth ina. pamphlet described as an appeal to the American Government_and people on the pending questions between Japan and the hited States." The author of the pamphlet is st and. is. President.

Dragon Society and. the Seisanto, Members of the latter will shortly tried for conspiracy to murder prominent ofiials and citizens. In Zhe past Mr. Uchida, has, time and again, acted, with the members of the. Black Dragon Society (also mow as the Amur' Association) a3 {gent provocateur in China for the Tapanese military.

The gloom. that, according him, prevails over the, relations tween Japan and the. United States traceable" to. the. American Auigration lw (wrongly called the danti-Japanese immigration act hhere); alleged American imperial He tendencies towards affairs Far Bast; and. the. "*humiliatio Inflcted on Japan by "forcing" her to. be content with an. inferior hinval ratio. In all these matters, hho contends, "America took the initiative and provocative role and, therefore, a. happy. solution of the imeulties rosta with the United States, If America desires to restore "stabilized harmony" in the relations between the two, countries, them ahs shoul sayy Mr, Uchis Fepeal the immigration law Eetpermit Japanese tobe glib for citizenship, enunciate a "hands off" polley in' China and, Manchurls Proposing implicit trust, in Japan as rds these areas in Far Eastern in' from contesting other nation, to ratio which that necessary for her Case for Abolition considerable portion of the voted to the immigra-Hon. law ments, with numerous quotations rom individuals and associations the United States not opposed to revision of the law, are quoted ad Ub, Tt is, for instance, contended that the' immigration "act need-easly Wounded Japanese suse bilities and branded the Japai 30 inferior peopl, that has considerable is convinced, is necessary for the maintenance of peace and order and absolutely necessary for the execu-fon of the "great mission" in her, Treaties to which Jay well as others are signatories, course, do not mean anything to President of the Black Society whose truculent fire-eating chauvinism has, time and again, been manifested by gross misrepresentations that come very close (if they have not actually done. so) to sheer mendacity. Stimson Note, calling attention to the fact that Japan is a signatory of the Nine-Power Treaty and the Kellogg Pact, is trotted forth as proof that "every sort of inter~ ference" was resorted to by Mr. Hoover's Secretary of State while the wheat loan made to China by American interests and the alleged secret aviation treaty, said to be in ffitence between "China, and the Inited States are represented as moves on the part of America to "deliberately stimulate" disturbances in the Far East.

No outside assistance can ever benefit China, Mr. Uchida contends. Towns, under' whatever title or by whoever granted, he asserts, will find their way into the pockets of the warlords for the furtherance of their own individual interests. hing ig a country divided against If," he proceeds, "and it is a salient characteristic of the Chinese off, one country against This was evident, he holds, when the Manchurian Incident started. China was depend~ ing now on the League, now on the United States and now on Great Britain to aid her, and it was the expectation of such assistance, he says, that induced China to lake such high-banded" attitude against Japan. Mr. Uchida insists that foreign assistance will never help China to put her house in or~ der, but that such will, on the contrary, only hasten the dis Integrating process which already seriously set in, 'America "entertains the design' of penetrating the Far Ea:

the expense of Japan," he writes, "this country will not' be seized with trepidation, Whether China sides with America or even if the whole world is pitted against Japan, that will mot alter our determine tion, by one jot or iota, to proceed with our sacred mason of establish: the Bar Baste, What' we dren ing peace, order and prosperity in however, is that such an exigency right prolong the confusion China and spell great distress to the millions of that land whom we ire to rescue from their woe Besides, the spark of another world war might be ignited, plunging the entire world into chaos."

Forces Exonerated treaty.

"Tt is our firm conviction," the pamphlet goes on, "that all' racial iserimination should be abolished, of only for the sake of world Pence, but also in the furtherance humanitarian conside That is Why, he proceeds, Japanese delegation to the' Ver-fallles Pence' Conference were Gnstructed to introduce a racial equality proposal to be inserted in the Covenant of the League, "but this humble, innocuous proposal was rejected owing to stout opposition from America, Britain and other countries," But entirely apart from Al that, Mr. Uchida goes on, America should revise the immigration law at Toast in go far as Japan jg "concerned if she, cares for Fapan's friendship and pays any attention to the growing prestige of this country, He hopes that the 'America which fought a civil war for the abolition of slavery will hammer down this monument of anachronism' called the Immigra-lon Act of 1924. regard to affairs in China, Mr. chide ageerts that America "is ill indulging in time-honoured Mliusions" there, the result being vigorous policy on her part which constitutes unwarranted—interference swith Japan's actions and antagonism towards this country and which might precipitate a clash Between the two countries."

Wholesale Hitting Out Dilating on this, Mr. Uchida holds that the mission of preserving the peace of the Far East belongs to japan and to Japan alone, due to jer inseparably close connection: Seographically ae well as politically, Srith this part of the world and that it is beyond the comprehension, of the Japanese to understand what motive actuated others to meddle when Japan takes action which, she Turning to the problem of naval ation, the leader, of, the Black dragon Society says that the most deplorable thing about both the Washington Conference and that equantly held in London was that nations, participating, did not meet on a footing of equality, the result that not only inferior ratio imposed on Japan, Dut she was also forbidden to fortify the Bonin Islands and other places vitally necessary for her safety. Mr. Uchida holds that the Washington and London parleys were peaceful conferences in name only, but that, in reality, they constituted engagements in which Japan submitted to. the combined naval strength of Great Britain and the United slates. A. strong, wave, of popular indignation, he says, gree ed the result of the London conference, "but the Premier (Mr. Hamaguchi) and the Foreign Minister (Baron Shidehara) turned a [deaf ear to the outbursts of indignation and accepted the humiliating London treaty." (This is hardly in accordance mith the facts, and a perusal of the more decent news-Paper comment of that date will Teveal that public opinion, as mirrored by the press, whol Ty supported the then Government authorities and rejoiced that the London naval conference was able to call a halt to a possible naval race. Of course, there were the reac-onery societies and the embattled and embittered military caste that found fault with what arrangements Jnwere reached by Japan's plenipoten-Tiaries, but, it must be remembered that these, like the poor, are ever with us.)

Mr. Uchida here digresses exonerate the conduct of the Army and Navy cadets and of the Blood Brotherhood Union who committed 1 series of cold-blooded and calculate ed murders last year and attempted to subvert the existing form of government in the land, something

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