AMERICA AND JAPAN

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18050, 25 September 1920, Page 9

AMERICA AND JAPAN

RELATIONS VERY STRAINED,

THE CALIFORNIA QUESTION.

Prose Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.

TOKio, September 22. Aho newspaper Hochi Shimbun states that the Japanese Government, as ii result of a recent Cabinet meeting, will vigorously pursue negotiations concerning American anti-Japanese JogLslation, and will firmly keep before the League of Nations the question of racial equality. Federal Representative Kodama addressed a public meeting on the subject of an American-Japanese war. lie denounced. American militarism, Raying that, as Jong as a threatening nation existed beyond the Pacific, Japanese naval expansion could not cease. The police interfered and silenced the speaker. Mr Hara, Premier, addressing the provincial Governors, said that the situation m the world had never been more strained than at present. Japan's problems had hitherto been confined to the Orient, but international competition had arisen, resulting in a marked increase in Japan's responsibility to the world and in an expansion of her national expenditure.— A. and N.Z. Cable. WASHINGTON, September 23. btate Department officials state that in tho negotiations with the Japanese Ambassador, Mr Shidi Hara, tho United States will maintain its position as set forth by the Lansing-Ishii Agreement, under which Japan voluntarily undertakes to prevent her citizens coming to the United States. The State Department will do its best to avoid conflict in the negotiations as an outcome of the Japanese protest against the Californian State law prohibiting Japanese from holding land A and N.Z. Cable. NEW YORK, September 23. The New York Times Washington correspondent telegraphs that gratifying progress Las been made in tho effort to reach a satisfactory understanding relative to the Californian Question and other matters pertaining to the rights of Japanese nationals in the United States.—A. and N.Z. Cable. ■

ANTI-JAPANESE LEGISLATION.

A LAWSUIT THREATENED

TOKIO, Sept-ember 23. (Received Sept. 24, at 10.20 p.m.) Several leading newspapers state that in the event of Califorriian legislation being passed, the Japanese Government will bring a lawsuit against California on the ground that it is unconstitutional and violates the treaty rights of the Japanese —A. and N.Z. Cable.