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There arrived in the U. S. a Japanese Commission, established to examine the trial-by-jury system of the Occident. Among the members Were M. Minagawa, Attorney General of Japan; M. Toyomizu, Justice of the Court of Appeals of Tokio, and M. Iwamura, Councilor and Secretary to the Minister of Justice. After leaving the U. S., the Commission will proceed to Britain, France, Germany and Italy, to conduct further investigations into the application of trial-by-jury in the courts of those countries...
...much-discussed French Moderns, there are two other interesting exhibitions current in London: Frank Brangwyn at Burlington House, and Paul Gauguin at the Leicester Galleries. The Brangwyn exhibition also was opened by Prime Minister MacDonald. Many of the canvases were loaned by the late Prince Matsukata of Tokio...
According to dispatches from Tokio, one Dr. Saike, of the Japanese Institute of, Nutrition, is about to startle the world with a discovery which will revolutionize human existence. Briefly, he has concocted a peculiar fish powder which he claims will add any number of inches to one's height...
Ever since the passage of the Japanese Exclusion amendment to the new immigration bill, the unfortunate reactions which most persons anticipated at the time have been developing precisely as foreseen. Tokio news dispatches report numerous and violent mob demonstrations, and foreign correspondents tell of various petty discourtesies indicative of a feeling of bitter resentment on the part of minor officials. The latest bit of popular protest is the suicide of a active before the gates of the American Embassy...
Japan herself is at present in no coalition to back up her objections with armed force; but if, as seems not unlikely, the mob spirit runs beyond control, and results in the killing of isolated American citizens, the initiative will be transferred from the government at Tokio to that at Washington. In such an event, the spectacle presented by the United States will be that of a powerful nation, which has already badgered a smaller neighbor to the point of desperation, forced into aggressive action to preserve its national prestige--with the unpleasant conviction in the background that the entire...