The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. MONDAY, AUGUST 4, 1913. JAPAN AND AMERICA.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 76, 4 August 1913, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. MONDAY, AUGUST 4, 1913. JAPAN AND AMERICA.

The Japanese Press is by no means silent with regard to California’s land laws, and the “Osaka Asahi” goes so far as to boldly say that the time has [come when Japan must not depend upon tlie good will, real or pretended, of a few statesmen, hut must get “clear legislative and diplomatic assurances from America.” It holds that Japan’s minimum claim is that the United States shall grant Japanese subjects the same freedom that they enjoy in other parts of the world. She must flatly decline to sec her subjects treat,od otherwise than as civilised men and women. Other influential newspapers published in Japan speak in similar strain and set forth that America is offering insult alter insult to the weak diplomacy of the Japanese Government and the modest attitude of the Japanese people. “The Japanese must prevent the Hill being enforced. If they hesitate to do so they will eventually all he driven hack into the narrow confines of the island empire.” All this and much men 1 of the same sort of talk indicates that there is a large section of the Japanese people who are prepared to go oven to the lengths of war to compel what they claim to he a measure of justice.