# Toward a conflict between Japan and America

- URL: https://syn.by/en/history/archives/toward-a-conflict-between-japan-and-america/
- Published: 1924-05-18T18:40:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-10-22T19:51:45+00:00
- Section: Archives
- Language: en
- BE edition: https://syn.by/historya/arkhivy/da-kanfliktu-pamizh-japonijaj-i-amerykaj.md
- RU edition: https://syn.by/ru/istoriya/arhivy/k-konfliktu-myezhdu-yaponiyey-i-amyerikoy.md

> US President Coolidge has postponed the law restricting the entry of Japanese workers, the very law over which the two countries almost quarreled.

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President Coolidge has postponed putting into effect the new law on emigrants. It was aimed chiefly against the influx of Japanese workers, whose cheapness made them competitors of the Americans.

As is known, this law almost caused a serious conflict to break out between Japan and America.