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Show JAPANESE ENVOY HAS IMPORTANT MISSION TOKIO, Feb. 10. (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) Marquis Kalonjl, chief Jh panose envoy to tho peace conference con-ference in Paris, left Tokio for the French capita 1 on January 1 1 . His departure evoked i meres ti 7i k s.u truest ions f rum the leading newspapers as to Japan's attitude atti-tude in fnr eastern affairs. The Kokinnln -asserts Uml it will he tho task of Ma npiis Saionji i o maintain t ne, principle of "lh orient for the orientals'' and reminds its readers t ha I lie hen rs on his shoulders the dettiny of the Japanese Japa-nese empire. The paper adds that this poiicy accords with tn "prirc-iplfs of liberty lib-erty and equality enumerated by j'r'-si-dent Wilson as the basis of a world's pea ce." The Asahl, perhaps the lending Japanese Japa-nese news pa per, wi Lb simu itaneous editions edi-tions in Tokio and Osaka, lays stress upon assertion of the principle of racial equality and declares that by upholding this policy the marquis would be In accord ac-cord -wltii President Wiison's ideas of .in 31 ice and li;i ina n ; ;y. At tre same time, the ' Asar.i remarks that the trend of world ai'faiis uemands an absuluu-iy opn-door poiby in all international re-lalidns re-lalidns and therefore t'kiiia. It says tha Japan's advocacy of the removal or racial barriers wiii not. bo m.T c-;en" ly convincing unless she upenly pledges herself her-self to "abandon her nu V, t ar.st ic diplomacy di-plomacy v.hi'h lias --'o often ben the siiiC'-ct. nf inis'-o:,''i;h'Lio:is and suspicions amotiL th powers. The advancd ace of the marouis, according ac-cording to Ja na liese idea s -ce is 7'j this yea r h i u pr: n f,j n; : .yt Ins assoc; a-;:one a-;:one with party politcs, h;-" r'-ent investiture in-vestiture v. the T-icr of the Chrysanthemum, Chrysan-themum, t.-e luL'hf st. decr.ra lion in tre ciTr. of ;he euveror; h;s ferries.--, nncont-pro:n:.-incr spirit. cocpad wi'h the, lancuid manner he affects, all make him io tiie Ja pa ncse an in l re--1 in fi ore,-wi! ore,-wi! suit-d io be the c Aprc.-iun of national na-tional vfn 1 : in n! . i p to liie present Japr-in has hccn rcp-rei-ent .-- .i i he pence, conference hy a 'i',:'::o;i in wbi'-.i jjaron Makmo 1:3 the |