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Zurich Citizens News, 1974-01-31, Page 13THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 1974 ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS PAGE 13 International Scene (by Raymond Cannon) JAPANESE, GO HOME! If anyone were to ask you what nation is generally disliked throughout the world, you might be tempted to answer -the Amer- icans. You wouldn't be far wrong for who hasn't seen or read about the numerous "Yank- ee, Go Home" signs which have appeared on walls in so many countries. You may be interested to learn that somebody is giving the Americans a run for their money in this respect and that is the Japanese. Prime Minister Tanaka can readily vouch for this since, on a recent visit which he made to a few count- ries in south-east Asia, he was busy ducking mob scenes much of the time. Before he made_ the trip, few Japanese were aware of how unpopular they were in that area but, now that Mr. Tanaka is home again, they certainly know the truth. The first indication of what was in store for him came in Bangkok, Thailand, where he ran into a protest march organ- ized by the students. The Thais are normally quite docile people but of late the students have become more vociferous, with conspicuous success against the government, and they decided to accord the Japanese prime ministdr a little of the same treatment. Nothing he could say seemed to mollify them. Mr. Tanaka got through Mal- aysia and Singapore without too much more trouble but ran into younger and angrier mobs in Indonesia, mobs that forced him to cancel several speaking engagements. When that was all over, he was more than rel- ieved to get back to the relative safety of Tokyo. The Japanese, having recently run afoul of Arab oil restrictions as well, must be wondering if they have a bad case of bad breath. After all, nobody can accuse them of military egress- ion except, of course, the Com- munists and they'd accuse even Lichtenstein if they thought that nobody would believe them. If not guilty of military egress- ion,' what are the Japanese guilty of? Blunty put --economic egression. The Japanese have carried the same zeal into their economic expansion of the 1960's as they did to their fighting of the 1940's. The south-east Asians believe, rightly or wrongly, that Japan is building up a posit- ion of economic dominance without paying any attention, or not enough attention, to the wishes of the local people. While this is true, to a certain extent, it is not entirely a fair assessment. The Japanese are only filling a vacuum caused by the departure of the European colonial powers and Japanese trade and investment has undoubt• edly done a great del of good in that part of the world. However, Japanese traders are sometimes known to be arrogant and while this behaviour may be accepted from Europeans or even Americ- ans, it is definetly not tolerat- ed in fellow Asians. There is a great deal that Japan can do to improve this picture if they are not to have "Japanese, Go Home!" signs all over the walls or if they are to avoid retaliation on the part of the Asian nations. Per- haps Mr.' Tanaka will now order a diplomatic offensive to be carried out in the area which presumably will be executed with the same efficiency and thoroughness of Japan's earlier moves. The results of this next offen- sive will be interesting to watch! 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