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Nevertheless. the skill of her diplomats at the ensuing Versailles Conference enabled Japan to harvest most of her war gains. Japans territorial acquisitions In China were definitely written Into the peace treaty. despite Chinas sullen veto. and Japans preponderance in Chinese affairs was tacitly acknowledged. Japan also took advantage of the occasion to pose as the champion of the colored races by urging the formal promulgation of "racial equality" as part of the peace settlement. especially as regards immigration. Of coorse the Japanese diplomats had no serious expectation o their demands being acceded to. in fact. they might have been rather embarrassed If they bad succeeded. In view of Japans own stringent laws against Immigration and alien landholding. Nevertheless. It was a politic move. useful for future propagandist purposes. and it advertised Japan broadcast as. the standardbearer of the colored cause. The notable progress that Japan has made toward the mastery of the Far East is written plainly upon the map. which strikingly portrays the broadening territorial base of Japanese power effected Ia the past 25 years. Japan now owns the whole island chain masklag the eastern sea frontage of Asia. from the tip of Kamchatka to the Philippines. while her acquisition of Germanys Oceanlean Islands north of the Equator gives her important strategic outposts in midPacific. Her bridgeheads on the Asiatic Continent are also strong and well located. From the Korean Peninsula (now an integral part of Japan) she firmly grasps the vast Chinese dependency of Alanchurla. while just south of Manchuria across the narrow waters of the Pechili Strait lies the rich Chinese Province of Shantung. become a Japanese sphere of Influence as a result of the late war. Thus Japan holds Chinas capital.