JAPAN

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 161, 2 April 1919, Page 4

JAPAN

A NEW ZEALAND GIRL'S VIEW. A Ohristcliitrch business girl who is now living in Tokio lias some very inforesting mings 10 say m u letter to n friend .ill ' Cnrislcliureli, states the "Press".—"Prom the newspapers just at Ibis time," slio says, "1 read of the controversy ruging butwcen ' the possession of "curtain German- colonies by J tipnu mid Australasia," uutl as a New Zetilander with always my country's interests nt heart, 1 slioukl pity: 'Keep the Japanese uway from our chores—Australasia is no pluco for the Asiatic.' ' The nation of Japan looms up as a menace, ami one wkicn in u lew. years lienee may be ditiietilt to contend against. 1 should' halo to think-of my country being sul-' lied with the footsteps' of tun Jan-'nieso. I have lived amongs ttbe Japanese— have talked with tlie-m, worked in business with them, rubbed shoulder to shoulder with them in the streets, streetcars, shops—in tact, everywhere—ami from experience with them 1 should conjure our country to have nothing to do with them. 'Since the armistice, and when coalitions assume the normal, I believe we shall find very few articles bearing the insignia 'Mado in Japan,' because tlvcro isn't a question as to un enormous amount of goods manufactured in this country being of an inferior standard. Tiiey are now agitating fiercely the abolition of 'race discrimination' under the existence of President Wilson's 'League of Nations,' but. oven if countries decide to adopt this method and establish laws permitting the coloured rucos to enjoy the same privileges as the white people, the deep-rooted feeling of the individual towards tho Orientals and other races that arc not white will still remain—there can be no abolition of an individual feeling or attitude towards such nations. Personally, .1 should feel tlie same towards the Japanese whether laws raised them to tjus standing ol Europeans or not, und I urn sure there arc thousands who share my views on this point, it is going to be a difficult problem. 'Tho leopard cannot change His spots'; neither can whole nations otter in a day the ideas they have cherished for centuries concerning yellow, black, and brown peoples. From time immemorial wo have despised tho coloured races, and perhaps tho detestation is felt more keenly by those wiio live in the centre of a yellow race. At all ovonts, it would be u sad day for Australasia were Japan to succeed in her desires. . , .

"As a country, Japan is very disappointing—seeing tlie way it. has been written of for so long, and one realises more than ever the truth in the slogan, 'It pays (o advertise!' Japan is one of the most widely-advertised countries in the world, and Lain afraid the goods are not up to sample.' However, there is an Amcrifin phrase which seems to fit right here, which runs: 'Got While (lie (jetting is Good,' and tho 'getting' is pretty good here just now. I guess that is the reason Why so many foreigners remain here, for nut anyone whom 1 have met really likes either Japan or the Japanese."

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