JAPAN'S GRIEVANCE

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 120, 25 May 1925, Page 3

JAPAN'S GRIEVANCE

RACIAL DISCRIMINATION

ANIMOSITY TOWARDS WHITE RACE GENERALLY..

"Japan cherishes' no animosity against the Commonwealth for its policy of exclusion, but against the white races the world over the Japanese have a grievance because of their racial discrimination. ' In these words the Bishop of Soutli Tokio (Dr. S. Hcaslett), who arrived at Sydney recently to take part in the Anglican Church Congress summed up his view of the Japanese opinion of the White' Australia policy says the Melbourne "Argus." "I do not hear the Japanese talk much of Australia," he said. "Australia as a country is not greatly in their minds, which for the most part are fixed upon the United States of America. With certain fairly obvious changes, their grievance against the Americans no doubt applies to the Australians, but Australia has never done anything to hurt the feelings of the Japanese. On the other hand, they were > perfectly content with the Gentlemen's Agreement' with America, and naturally they rather resented the somewhat rough manner in which they were deprived of it. They are out for equality in all things." _ Questioned regarding the Japanese attitude towards trade, Bishop Heaslett said that the Japanese had not yet become accustomed to Western ways entirely, and there was that section of them which desired to "get rich quick." This section was not very scrupulous about the means by which wealth was attained. The Japanese reputation for "shoddy," however, was passing, and rightly so, for with the growth of Western ideas even the less scrupulous were beginning to lealise that bad business methods did not pay. Japanese consuls in various countries were on the alert, arid had effectively warned traders that their methods must change. "As far as Australia's relationship with Japan is concerned," he continued, "the policy of both peoples should be better education and better understanding. It is necessary to know each other. I do not think that it is absolutely essential for Australians to learn the Japanese language, though that is the surest method by winch to understand them. Tlie Japanese learn English, and Australians could travel there without any difficulty. They really should do so, and get to know the mind of the Japanese people.' "The Anglican Church has attained in Japan a success of a nature parallel nowhere else in the world. Two of its bishops are Japanese nationals, and 160 of its clergy are also drawn from the Japanese people. Just how serious the Japanese Christians—of whom there are 250,000, including 28,000 Anglicansare in their profession of faith may bo gathered from the fact that more than 300 congregations are entirely self-sup-porting, paying t/ic stipends of their own clergy and all their own expenses. Thirty of these congregations are Anglican."

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