JAPAN'S AIM.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16320, 8 January 1921, Page 14

JAPAN'S AIM.

OUTLET FOR PO PUT-ATI ON.

By Telegraph—Tresa Association—Gepyri^b*Auatralian and X.Z. Cable Association. LONDON, January 7. Tli© “Morning Post’*’* Tokio cor. respondent- expresses the opinion that any disrussion on Japan** ambitions must take into account Oriental diplomatic strategy. Re says that when Japan early in the war demanded the German islands a* the price of her co-operation it was not, with the specific purpose of menacing Australian or American territory, but she hoped thereby to obtain something she really wanted more, ajul which her rivals were more likely to concede, thus bv demanding racial equality at> Versailles Japan got the Marshall Islands and the. succession to German rights in China. She does not want South Sea islands for naval bases or as territory, bat as host-ages for the future. If Australia or America dislike Japan’s presence there they are nior« likely to concede something she want* much more, namely an outlet for her population, possibly by giving her a Dee hand in Asia. The threat of building a big Japanese navy might promote the same ambition.