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Show JAPAN IS FiCIIG liPlBLEMS Forthcoming Session of Diet Promises to Be of Unusual Interest TOICTO, Nov. 2D, Absorbing Interest attaches at-taches to the forthcoming session of tho Japanese diet in December. Tho year has boon momentous politically on " account ac-count of tho trouble In China and the passage, of tho alien land-tenure bill In California. Theso quostion3 arc likely to bo reflected In parliament. Anti-American apeoches by chauvinists aro rogarded as not unllkoly. Considerable uncertaln-tyii.a!2 uncertaln-tyii.a!2 .to ,tho direction Internal politics will take lends additional attraction to the sessions of the assembly. Japan's present Government is conservative, con-servative, but the musses throughout Ja-E?in Ja-E?in exerting a frrentor power in political po-litical life and their representatives In parliament will voice thlo tendency. Tho student class as evidenced by tho recent attack beforo tho foreign office gatcB over tho ChinoBo question is mnklng It-oelf It-oelf heard, Tho unlvorsallty of education and incidentally tho growing Influence of tne Japancflo woman aro all things whloh mV.a.$ b? reckoned with In determining the political future of Japan. It la true that tho conservative Influence- of the elder statesmen and of what might bo called tho reactionaries In general gen-eral haB steadily declined In change from an. oligarchy to a constitutional monarchy. monar-chy. But there is nn old Japanose proverb prov-erb which sayB: "Consult if only with your Knee8." The Japanose is careful and conservative by nature At all times no reflects, consults and weights before malting any decision. This fundamental trait In tho Japancoo character, together with tho predominating reverence for tho emperor and love of country are likely to prevent nny plunge Into dangerous radicalism, rad-icalism, even If a new and moro llboral cabinet should come Into powor. There are today five dlffprent political parties or groups In Japan. It is difficult diffi-cult to designate these groups as "Con-uervatlvcs "Con-uervatlvcs ." "LlboraJs" or -'Radicals," as ono would in the west, because of the absence of essential differences In their platforms. All are fundamentallv devoted to the consummation of true constitutional constitu-tional regime. The truth of tho mattor seems that Japan's Internal politics Is undergoing a period of transition. In tho case of politics it Is from the ollgar-chal ollgar-chal regime controlled by the elder statesmen Into true constitutional monarchy mon-archy with party government. Tho new order of things Is still In embryo. The political forces nre thero, ready to bo molded Into definite form. |