The Archive · 1938

Common Racial System

"5, It is advisable to establish a common racial system which will unite the two nations of Japan and China, The old international theory that China 15 en independent country with which Japan should maintain normal diplomatic relations must be. refuted. Another theory equally to be refuted is that which regards China as a conquered country which should yield to every Japanese ex-agency. The tomer theory represents European-American idealism, and the latter a manifestation of misapplied imperialism. It is a sort of Far Eastern amalgamation that we should prepare.

"The lot of the Chinese people is that it is valled upon to melt with the expanding Japanese people. There will be no conqueror nor conquered, no winer nor loser. The Oriental race will forget its past quarrels to establish a true paradise. It is the creation of a new Asia that falls to the lot of the Japanese people.

"But for succeeding in such an enterprise, it is not brains formed after European or American fashions that are capable of directing our activities, The intellectual elite of Japan should. help our officials and offer them useful advice. Reuter.

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