Abstract

Truth about Japan

This article literally appraises the book "Japan in Recent Times," by A. Morgan Young. In "Japan in Recent Times" Mr. Young, the editor of the Chronicle since 1922, gathers into a connected story the gist of many of his editorials. The story of Japan's intervention in Siberia, its course in China, its Korean and Formosan policies, the growth of labor unionism, the spread of violent antialienism in certain quarters, the political imbroglios, the incredible "earthquake rumors" that led to massacres of helpless Koreans and of labor leaders by murderers who became popular heroes, the false and atrocious scandals that foreign ships thrust Japanese men overboard and that girls were rescued only to be assaulted and thrown overboard again--all are told either for the first time to Western readers or told in more complete detail.