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- 87 - JAPAN The Wilitary dea Declines . “ghe unpopylerity of compulsory military service hes in- -". greased noticeabdly within the ast decade. The authorities have ° " not tried to conceal their anxiety over the mumber of youths seek to escape service nts for who, then they come to military eee,» by contracting bodily infirmity. The number of apolice y schools rhich Jeod to the plums of admission to the militer # One years they hardly a military cereer has declined s> that in equal the mumber of vacancies." - ¥rom an editorial in the JAPAN ADVERTISER, Yay, 1922. "Ip we wish to know the democratic, ideniietic feeling 5 234 Listen to students of the Japanese youth of today, We Eno erary exercises. Those a giving their orations in college lit ereations are filled with politicad 4desiism end 4nterna tional prothernood. “The atudents boldly ee22 upon their govern- 4 ; ment to Btop all aggreesions in Chine. - Stenley Eigh, “Phe Revolt of Youth". Weseda Universit Tokyo 1 meeting, held May 12, 1923, at During the inaugure 4on for the Study of fokyo, of tre Associat e-Minister of Wer spoke and an ant somilitarism Waseda University, which the Vic Kato was read, wilitery Science at adress fron Peemfer Baron ged by 8 large body of ana demonstration was ete students who threw the meeting into confusion. : fhe demonstration resulted e of the groving oppos 1 tio: an the dissolution of the > Bociety ani 28 evidence n to the ‘militaristic system in Japen.