JAPAN AND AMERICA.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 September 1920, Page 5

JAPAN AND AMERICA.

QUESTIONS TO BE SETTLE© By Telegraph.—Press Association. Washington, Sept. 16. Considerable interest has been taken j in the opening of negotiations between the State Department and the Japanese Ambassador on the Californian question. It is pointed out that President Wilson's administration will probably wait till after the election before making any definite step. It is thought that if Mr. Harding (Republican nominee) is elected, President Wilson will pass the Japanese question on to him. There is no doubt that California will approve the laws making it impossible ifor Japanese to own land, or even to lease or otherwise control land through organisations. There are many questions needing settlement between Japan and the United States, namely Siberia (including Saghalien Island), the open door.in China, Japanese colonisation in Hawaii and the Philippines. It is the general opinion that pending settlement of the Californian question all these will have to wait" It is understood that an informal discussion between the State Department and the Japanese Ambassador about the Californian situation has ended and (hat formal negotiations have begun. The Japanese Government has author- ! ised the Ambassador to take up the j question officially.—Aus.-N.Z.' Cable [Assn. Received Sept. 17, 5.5 p.M. Washington, Sept Ml. The organisation of foreign war veterans has petitioned the Government to abrogate airy agreements with Japan permitting other than Japanese students and merchants to enter the United States, and to pass legislation forbidding such immigration; also to enact a constitutional amendment making it impossible for American-born Japanese to become United States citizens, and not to permit the naturalisation of any Japanese now in the United States Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.