A Brief Review of the Labour Movement in Japan/Part 3/Chapter 5
CHAPTER V.
International Relations.
Owing to the isolated position of their country, to concentration of their energy on the campaigns against their internal enemy, to their youth, and to their undeveloped class consiousness, the Japanese Trade Unions have taken no part in international affairs, except a mere fraternal relation of the Yuai-kai with the American Federation of Labour, some personal connections with Chinese and Korean workers and Socialists, and the accidental intercourse of a few Japanese workers with the Western champions of yellow Unions at the International Labour Conference (at Washington and Genoa).
Recently we learned the Amsterdam Trade Union International is trying to create some relationship with the Japanese Trade Unions.
At any rate, it is of great importance that the huge land of the Far East has been not yet stained by the yellow colour of Internationalism.