1: The Californians are not connecting how they treat the Japanese immigrants with the Japanese nation.
2: The anti-Japanese legislation in California was not really necessary.
1: The Japanese feel the anti-Japanese legislation is unfair.
2: This is more a Federal than a State matter.
3: Race hatred needs to be done away with.
1: Japan is wondering if the anti-Japanese attitude is applies just to California, or to the United States as a whole.
2: The Japanese can't understand why the U.S. federal government cannot stop a state from enacting the anti-Japanese legislation.
1: Japan wants to be treated equally with other nations.
2: We are not dealing with a significant number of Japanese in California.
1: Really negative reaction did not start in Japan until California basically defied the U.S. government's attempt to stop their anti-Japanese legislation.
2: Californians who hate the Japanese do so because of the success of the Japanese (plus racial factors, of course.) This also relates to anti-Black hatred in the South.
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