SIMMERING IN JAPAN.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 98, 28 April 1933, Page 7

SIMMERING IN JAPAN.

Military Dictatorship Based On Fascism. MUSSOLINI OF THE EAST. LONDON, April 21. Tho "Great Asian League," which Japan launched with the approval of her naval and military leaders after her withdrawal from Geneva, has no prospect of obtaining members except Japan and Manehukuo, says the correspondent of the "Manchester Guardian" in Japan. Accordingly, he says, the Japanese are seeking new aims, one of which is Fascism, which one economic newspaper declares the Saito Ministry must adopt or collapse. Another economic journal attacks the big capitalist groups and especially their activities in Manehukuo. General Araki, Japan's Mussolini and Minister of War, also hates the capitalists, in which stand he is supported by small traders who fear that big operations will reduce their profits and by militarists who fear that wealth will supplant valour as a dominating influence in Japan. Meanwhile. General Araki is popularising "Kodo," meaning "the Imperial way," which he defines as a fusion of the spirit underlying the foundation of the country and the Japanese ideal. He declares that Japan's sacred mission is to spread "Kodo" throughout the world—by force if necessary— especially in China and also in India, where there are 300,000,000 in dire misery under Britain's oppression. General Araki adds that awakened Japan cannot tolerate further white tyranny in the Far East and that the true value of the Japanese army lies in its enforcing "Kodo" upon the nation. The correspondent emphasises that General Araki's frequent addresses on these lines are stirring the Japanese, who apparently are nearing a military dictatorship.