JAPAN AND MIGRATION

Marlborough Express, Volume LX, Issue 229, 28 September 1926, Page 7

JAPAN AND MIGRATION

"NOTHING NEW IN POLICY." STATEMEN I BY AMBASSADOR. GENEVA, Sept. H. . Yiscount Ishii , Japanes© Ainbassador at Paris and tho lcadmg Japaneso represeutative at the League of Nations, declares that his (e>vernment has not advised him upon any new migration policy. "I'ell Australia," he said, "that wlicn Japan wants to scnd her peojxle there she will discnss tho matter first Witli Australia. We agrec with ]Mr Bruce that it is not a question for the League. I, as leader oi the delegation to the League. am deterniirted that the question will not bc discussed at Geneva Therefore, Australia can be oertain that it will not be brought up." . "How does Japan mtend to xleal with migration?" Viscount Ishii was asked. He replied: "We will settle our surplus population in the islands nortli of Japan's mainland, which for the present will absorb all that is necessarv. Japan is determined to eonfine migration ! her own possessioms. The population has growu enormouslv, and our land is limited. I cannot say wha.t will happen in ten or twenty yearp. It may then be necessary to expancl. Japan is genuinely Iriondly to Australia, and will always respeet her wishes. We are increasingly demanding her raw materials. especially wool, and certainly have iio reasbn to antagonise her. "Everyone in Japan is aware that Australia, for economic reasons, does not want Japanese. If we flooded Australia wages would be lowered. We understand that Australia will not stand for this._ The economic reasons are sufficoent to satisfy Japan that Australia does not want our people. I have no more to say except that I am oonfident that Japan's relations with Australia will continue to he very friendly."