JAPAN: Russo Conference

Conferences of the oriental species have precisely the same traits as those of occidental origin.

The conference at Tokyo between Japan and Soviet Russia to effect a trade agreement and possible recognition of Russia by Japan has been in session now for more than a month, without tangible sign of any better understanding.

So far the question of recognition of the Russian debt to Japan have not been discussed.

The principal thorn in Japanese flesh is the massacre (in 1920) of Japanese at Nikolaievsk in Russia. Japan demanded an apology and indemnities. The...

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