PROSPERITY OF JAPAN.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 422, 13 June 1922, Page 5

PROSPERITY OF JAPAN.

SUFFICIENT ROOM FOR ALL THB PEOPLE. NO FEAR OF YELLOW PERIL. By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Received June 11), 12.20 p.m. SYDNEY, Juno 13. Professor Sadler, who has been appointed to liil the Chair of Oriental Languages at the Sydney University, has arrived after 13 years’ residence in Japan. He says that the Chinese and Japanese are widely separated by racial prejudice and customs. He did not consider that 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 of the people profitably. The country had enjoyed exceptional prosperity since the Russo-Japanese war and had still further profited out of the late war, but a good deal of unemployment existed at the present. Although a good deal was made in the European press of political disturbances in Japan, these agitations had no meaning. The bulk of them were practically confined to the big centres, and were engineered by a few agitators. The reduction of armaments was favourably regarded by the majority of the thinking public in Japan, who favour the money being saved and expended on the 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 being; discriminated against in favour of nations of less distinction and power, such as Spain and Italy.—Press Association.