PROGRESSIVE JAPAN.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 12, 30 August 1911, Page 3

PROGRESSIVE JAPAN.

Air W. A. D’Arcy, who is travelling around the world as the representative of an English business company, was interviewed by a repremutati i e of the'Sydney “Daily Telegraph” last week. “1 have just been,'’ he said, “to India, Burma,'Strait Settlement',' Siam, China, and Japan, and 1 was move impressed by Japan than any of the other countries, so far ns business and industry are concerned, but in social matters I was most disagreeably surprised. All tbo Japanese seem obsessed with the idea that they- are superior to' white men, and they take no pains to hide it. If you were riding along in a rickshaw, and you happened to catch up with a Japanese in a similar vehicle, your hoy would keep behind his countryman all the time. Besides this, these boys are very rude and offensive, and if you touch them for being offensive, y r ou will get imprisoned without the option, for a lengthy period, as a friend of mine did. Their business methods are also very bad. If you enter into a contract with them, thov give you a bill lor payment in, say, CO days, and in the meantime they will oiler to pay you cash if you reduce the price. The place is teeming with spies also. You can’t do a thing without you are asked about it, and you cannot go anywhere without being watched and spied on. while all information that can lie collected about you is sent on to the chief of police. Most of the rickshaw hoys are police spies, and after taking you about they report to headquarters.