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Show I JAPANESE PRESS ASSAILS U. S. Ambassador Returns to Tokio on Account of Divergence of Views With Home Government. TOKIO, Friday. April 11. (By The Associated Press.) The announcement announce-ment that Viscount Ishiyi, the F'P-anese F'P-anese ambassador to the United Stales. Is returning to Japan, which Is accompanied by a continuation of the anti-American campaign in the Japanese press has had the effect of centralizing interest in Japanese and American relations. Several of the newspapers insist that Viscount Ishlyl is resigning on account of a dive: m of views with the home government. - The newspapers assail America and Americans for alleged activities iu Siberia, Si-beria, Korea and China. All of the newspapers find the I nited Stat, i gressive and hypocritical. The Jiji Shlnipo refers to the selfishness of the American proposal to have the league of nations covenant contirui the Monroe doctrine. Investigation Bhows no existence of serious diplomatic questions between Japan and the United States. In Siberia Si-beria where some differences in view developed between the United Sta'es and Japan it now appears that the two countries are working in close co-operation especially Jn connection with the control of the trans-Siberian railway. rail-way. The recent incident at Tien Tsin between Japanese and American troops is not considered important here Japan's appointment of Baron Yoshiro Sakatani as financial adviser to China seems not to have been approved ap-proved in the United States. though it is said Japan had the impression that the United States was favortblo to it. It is believed this question 1b one of the causes of Viscount lshli's return home for a consultation. Notwithstanding the adverse eriti- cisms of the newspapers, responsible (Japanese opinion continues solidly in favor of friendly co-operation wilh thj United States as the fundamental principle of Japan's foreign polity. The impression prevails that the n ws paper attacks are tho result of dio-appointment dio-appointment on the part of tho writers that Japan is not occupying as important im-portant a place in the peace conference confer-ence as they had Imagined she would ?nd general uneasiness over the possibility pos-sibility of Japan facing international political isolation. |