Japan made the first move on the conquest of China and the ultimate domination of Asia. It also had in its sights French Indo-China, the Dutch East Indies and India. This idea was flaunted by all the Japanese papers in China. Japan wanted to fight because a recent tiff with Moscow, over the Amur River, had disclosed for the first time a Russian policy of conciliation—long thought of in these countries as the prerogative of the English. Conciliation is considered a weakness by Oriental people. Suddenly, Japan felt that Russia would not trouble it unduly along that frontier. There might…
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