JAPANESE IMMIGRATION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19416, 26 August 1926, Page 9

JAPANESE IMMIGRATION.

DECISION TO DIVERT.

COLONISATION OF OWN AREAS DANGEROUS QUESTION SETTLED IMPORTANCE TO THE PACIFIC. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. ■ (Received 7.5 p.m.) A. and N.Z. LONDON. Aug. 25. The news cabled from Tokio that Japan intends to colonise Hokkaido and to cease sending emigrants to Australia, Canada and other countries where they are not wanted, is commented upon by the Daily Telegraph. The paper says the statement will lift a load of anxiety off the minds of statesmen in the United States, Australia and Canada. This action, it says, promises to postpone to a more distant and indefinite date the danger ,of that clash of the civilised races in the Pacific which would involve the East and he West in a Titanic struggle for supremacy. " The declaration, moreover, is a signal proof of the real greatness of the Power which makes it," continues the Telegraph. " The d.injrerous question of Japanese immigration will be removed from the American and British Imperial complex of world politics,"

Bearing on the World's Peace. Proceeding, the paper says: "Japan's declaration will have a direct, immediate and favourable bearing on the peace of the world. It means a definite recognition of the fact that the policy of exclusion insisted upon by the Western races is accepted, .at any rate for the time being. " Japan has behaved with great dignity in the face of a growing demand for the exclusion of her nationals—a demand forced upon the Governments concerned for industrial and economic reasons, especially by economic competition with men who want less to cat and are willing to work harder and longer and for less pay than the men of their own lands. Pacific Problem Less Grave. " There is no voice against the doctrine of a White Australia. Public feeling in Canada, the United States and on the Pacific coast is no less strong, yet, from the point of view of Japan, the problem of an outlet for her surplus population is a crucial one. " Japan is fast becoming industrialised on the British pattern and she must find outlets. She is preparing to develop her own possessions, but she may have, ideas also of extending her,existing settlements in the South Pacific, Mexico, Brazil and elsewhere.

" The problem of the Pacific remains, but by this declaration it is robbed of one of its most dangerously explosive angles."