intelligible motive was that the Alliance somewhat mitigates the
intensity of Japanese anti-British propaganda in India. However that may
be, there can be no doubt that the Japanese would like to pose before
the Indians as their champions against white tyranny. Mr. Pooley[57]
quotes Dr. Ichimura of the Imperial University of Kyoto as giving the
following list of white men's sins:--

(1) White men consider that they alone are human beings, and that
all coloured races belong to a lower order of civilization.

(2) They are extremely selfish, insisting on their own interests,
but ignoring the interests of all whom they regard as inferiors.

(3) They are full of racial pride and conceit. If any concession
is made to them they demand and take more.

(4) They are extreme in everything, exceeding the coloured races
in greatness and wickedness.

(5) They worship money, and believing that money is the basis of
everything, will adopt any measures to gain it.

This enumeration of our vices appears to me wholly just. One might have
supposed that a nation which saw us in this light would endeavour to be
unlike us. That, however, is not the moral which the Japanese draw. They
argue, on the contrary, that it is necessary to imitate us as closely as
possible. We shall find that, in the long catalogue of crimes committed
by Europeans towards China, there is hardly one which has not been
equalled by the Japanese. It never occurs to a Japanese, even in his
wildest dreams, to think of a Chinaman as an equal. And although he
wants the white man to regard himself as an equal, he himself regards
Japan as immeasurably superior to any white country. His real desire is
to be above the whites, not merely equal with them. Count Okuma put the
matter very simply in an address given in 1913:--

The white races regard the world as their property and all other
races are greatly their inferiors. They presume to think that the
role of the whites in the universe is to govern the world as they
please. The Japanese were a people who suffered by this policy,
and wrongfully, for the Japanese were not inferior to the white
races, but fully their equals. The whites were defying destiny,
and woe to them.[58]

It would be easy to quote statements by eminent men to the effect that
Japan is the greatest of all nations. But the same could be said of the
eminent men of all oth