Trouble With Japs.
June 15, 1907
Summary
The suspicion of Japan’s new alliances in the Pacific introduces an element of rising tension between the US and Japan.
Transcription
Trouble With Japs.
Coughlan Says We Need Real Fleet on Pacific
Washington, June 12.- That the Japanese of the Pacific coast and the Progressives, a political party of Japan, have entered into an alliance which has the earmarks of an international conspiracy, with the overthrow of the present ministry in Japanese coolly labor form continental United States as the ultimate objects, was learned authoritatively here.
A Tokyo dispatch says that Viscount Tani, leader of the opposition in the house of peers and head of the defense of Kumanoto in the Satsuma rebellion said anent the American question:
“The prosecution of the Japanese in San Francisco is a most wicked act. Should diplomacy fall to bring about a satisfactory solution the only way open to us is an appeal to arms. Our mind is firmly made up. It is certain that America will yield, for its people are radically commercial in their sentiment.”
Rear Admiral Joseph B. Coghlan, recently retired from the United States navy, made this statement.
“I don’t believe that Japan will ever attack us.
“One thing is certain, however. Our naval force in the Pacific is woefully inadequate for any such possibility as a war with Japan. We have three battleships along the Pacific coast now. We might just as well bring them around into the Atlantic waters, where they can be added to our fleet.
“We need a big navy not only as the surest guarantee of peace, but as protection to our colonial possessions and the retention of our self-respect among the nations.”
Coughlan Says We Need Real Fleet on Pacific
Washington, June 12.- That the Japanese of the Pacific coast and the Progressives, a political party of Japan, have entered into an alliance which has the earmarks of an international conspiracy, with the overthrow of the present ministry in Japanese coolly labor form continental United States as the ultimate objects, was learned authoritatively here.
A Tokyo dispatch says that Viscount Tani, leader of the opposition in the house of peers and head of the defense of Kumanoto in the Satsuma rebellion said anent the American question:
“The prosecution of the Japanese in San Francisco is a most wicked act. Should diplomacy fall to bring about a satisfactory solution the only way open to us is an appeal to arms. Our mind is firmly made up. It is certain that America will yield, for its people are radically commercial in their sentiment.”
Rear Admiral Joseph B. Coghlan, recently retired from the United States navy, made this statement.
“I don’t believe that Japan will ever attack us.
“One thing is certain, however. Our naval force in the Pacific is woefully inadequate for any such possibility as a war with Japan. We have three battleships along the Pacific coast now. We might just as well bring them around into the Atlantic waters, where they can be added to our fleet.
“We need a big navy not only as the surest guarantee of peace, but as protection to our colonial possessions and the retention of our self-respect among the nations.”
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Benton Camper
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“Trouble With Japs.,” Black Virginia: The Richmond Planet, 1894-1909, accessed February 16, 2026, https://blackvirginia.richmond.edu/items/show/601.