Japan Defies the Imperialists.

Japan cannot understand the widespread outcry from the Western world against its present occupation of Manchuria. Is it not entirely ethical and logical (the Japanese must be thinking) to defend one's interests in foreign lands? The Tokio government has stated frankly and with at least an outward show of sincerity, that in occupying Manchuria it intends to give to its interests and to the lives and property of its nationals only that definite measure of military protection and other first-rate Power would provide under similar circumstances. It has added with equal clarity that it has no territorial or political designs upon Manchuria.