JAPAN'S GRATITUDE
Baron Kanoko, of Japan, speaking at a dinner in New York in honor of King Edward's birthday, said : "It is our aim to fol, low Anglo-Saxon civilisation; not to become a yellow peril, but to take rank and title among the eivQiaed nations of the globe. Unfortunately we are in an awful straggle for our life. H fortune does not forsake ua in our hope to assimilate with the Western people, we shall certainly attribute it to the mighty Empire over which reigns that mighty Sovereign King Edward VtL As a representative of the Japanese people, let me express onr sincere gratitude to the nation of Anglo-Saxon race, and hope that the sun of England may never set" To which the company replied with long-continued cheers and then cries of "Banzai"
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Evening Star, Issue 12396, 9 January 1905, Page 6
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