File No. 895.00/512.
The American Chargé d’Affaires to the Secretary of State.
Since sending the report on the abolition of extraterritoriality, developments concerning land ownership and other questions gravely affect our interests. The unsatisfactory reply of the minister for foreign affairs to the ambassador’s request for further information, based on your telegraphic instructions of September 18, says, among other things:
The rights enjoyed by foreigners in Japan proper, in the matter of registration of real Tights, can not be extended to foreigners resident in Korea, it being impracticable at the present time to apply in Korea the Japanese laws relating to immovable property.