JAPAN OF TO-DAY.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 June 1922, Page 5

JAPAN OF TO-DAY.

A PROFESSOR’S VIEWS. By Telegraph-—Press Assn. —Copyright. Sydney, June 13. Professor Sadler, who has been appointed to fill the chair of Oriental Languages at Sydney University, has arrived, after thirteen years’ resilience in Japan. He says that the Chinese and Japanese are widely separated by racial prejudice and customs. He did not consider the talk of the yellow peril, so far as Australia was concerned, should carry weight. There was sufficient room in Japan to utilise the whole people profitably. The country had enjoyed exceptional prosperity since the Russo-Japanese war and still further profited out of the late war, but a good deal of unemployment existed at present. . Although a good deal was made in the European press of political disturbances in Japan, these agitations had no meaning. The hulk of them were practically confined to the hig centres, and they were engineered by a few agitators. A reduction of armaments was favourably regarded by the majority of the thinking public in Japan, who favour the money bsing saved and expended on pressing needs for internal development and education. . There was no severe animosity in .Japan towards America. The most apparent feeling was one of irritation at Wing discriminated against in favour of nations of leas distinction and power, such sub Spain and Italy.