The Church and International Relations - Japan -1917

1: The relationship between the Japanese and the Californians is improving.

2: A lot of the Japanese immigrants want to become American citizens.

3: Organized labor is supportive, to a degree, of his ideas for limiting immigration, although some aspects of organized labor oppose his ideas.

1: A lot of the regular people support the new ideas.

1: The press of both countries has predicted war.

2: The anti-alien land law has caused problems.

3: An anti-Japanese campaign has gotten underway in the U.S.

4: Americans don't understand Japan's own problems.

1: The Japanese resent the way their people are treated in the U.S.

1: American view of Japan's actions in China causes problems in Japan. Notice he says 'Japan's legitimate and absolutely necessary expansion of trade and influence in China...' There is no problem with expanding trade with China, of course, but the idea of a legitimate and necessary expansion of Japan's influence in China doesn't seem to be reasonable.

2: A solution.

1: The anti-Japanese campaign is shameful.

There is a race problem, especially in California. It's a matter of whites vs. Orientals.

The economic aspect of the 'Yellow Peril.'

The Japanese resent the way their people are being treated.

Biological and social assimilation explained.

Intermarriage is not required for social assimilation, as is shown by the Jews.

The present Oriental policy causes problems.

A new immigration law should be a quota based on the number of people of that country that are already here.

More details of the proposed new law.

American citizenship should not be race-based.

Will Japanese immigrants fight for the U.S. or Japan?



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