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This article presents the concluding chapters of an official history of Japanese intervention published by the Special Delegation of the Far Eastern Republic to the United States. Soon after the conference of the toiling people had elected the Government of Verkhne-Udinsk, in East Siberia, it was recognized by the Government of the Amur Province as the central government for the entire Far East. Afraid that the Maritime Government which had been recognized as the provisional government, might also extend its recognition to the Government of Verkhne-Udinsk as a central government, the Japanese began to exert on it an incessant pressure, not even stopping at threats. At the same time the Japanese also began to coquet with the Maritime Government, declaring it to be the only truly democratic government, and that Japan would recognize it if it would place itself at the head of al the provincial governments.

The article presents information regarding various developments around the world. Delayed dispatches from Tokyo give for the first time a more or less complete account of the demonstrations for manhood suffrage which resulted in the dissolution of the Japanese Diet on February 26, 1920. The popular agitation over the suffrage debate in the Diet was increased by the fact that 20,000 men were idle on account of a serious strike in the government steel works. Japanese Premier Takashi Hara avoided the issue for the government by dissolving the Diet.

This article focuses on political conditions in Japan after the First World War. The war has brought about greater changes than Japan anticipated. Its effect will doubtless be as far-reaching morally and spiritually as it is politically and materially. The wave of world revulsion toward democracy is approaching Japan. To guide the country in safety through this period of unrest and to preclude contamination from European politics, is the absorbing task of Japanese officialdom. The situation is complicated by the attitude of the Japanese press, which constantly reminds the nation that it was the bureaucracy in Russia, Austria and Germany that led to the overthrow of monarchy and urges Japanese officialdom to take warning.

Focuses on social developments that took place in Asia. Claims that the Japanese government has been charged with cruelty and brutality in putting down the violence; Comments on a proclamation of independence that the Koreans have issued; Claims of Philippines for independence; Tale of death, disease and distress that comes from India; Announcement of total expenditure on the military in India; Reports that labor in India has in the last three months shown wonderful signs of awakening, signs undreamt of by anybody six months before.