From International Press Correspondence, Vol. 3 No. 46, 28 June 1923, p. 453.
Transcribed & marked up by Einde O’Callaghan for the Marxists’ Internet Archive
June 16, 1923
Japanese policy has changed since the Washington Conference. Japan formerly looked to England, and in return for her alliance, played the watchdog over India. But England was compelled to give up her alliance with Japan, and Japan was therefore forced to change her foreign policy. Japan achieved a diplomatic victory in the case of China at the Washington Conference, but she has since realised that without China she would be isolated and has therefore recently begun to make advances to China. By her intervention in Russia, which in the end turned out to be unsuccessful. the government made enemies amongst its own people. The militarists became unpopular. As a consequence Japan was obliged to change her policy also as regards Soviet Russia. The visit of Joffe has inspired a great movement amongst the industrialists for a trade agreement with Russia.
He believed that the revolutionary movement in Japan would make greater strides in a few years than the European movement has made In as many decades.
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