Show I 1 JAPAN APAN AGREEMENT WITH AMERICA EXPlAINED Details of Gentlemen's Agreement Are Called For By Associated Press Preas TOKIO Match March In the house houe of I I peers peels a member presented ar an Interpellation lation regarding the terms and the peI pe- pe I of enforcement of the gentler lens len's i ii i concluded in 1907 between I II I Japal and the United States and asked whether the he agreement Is to tobe tobe I be kept In force forever lIe stated that he had heard that the regulation i I of emigration was enforced more I strictly by the Japanese authorities I than by the Americans He wanted to know why Japanese are being subjected I to such regulations while the Mexican i and Filipinos ale ari freely admitted to i r America I I The vice minister of foreign affairs I I replied that the called so-called agreement did not exist There W was wasa a voluntary declaration made by Japan II for fOI regulating the Influx of tu to America It means that no Japanese I may emigrate but that thos those those- who are ale In America are free to call their families from rom Japan The Imperial government gov- gov IS bound to live up to its dec dec- declaration he said Man Many a time anti anti- Japanese laws are understood to have bEen brought before American legislatures legisla- legisla legislatures tures but owing to to and in appreciation tion of Japanese efforts all anti Jap anese measures have failed to pass The said declaration will be kept in force for some time yet et It may be e abolished when the Japanese Immigrants Immigrants grants convince the American ties that their presenCe Is no cause of danger to American Institutions |