is engaged in newspaper literary work on fiction & Japanese subjects. His wife has a fine voice & was at one time an opera singer at the Metropolitan Opera House N.Y. The family are vegetarians & total abstainers but they gave me meat to eat. They have lived here at least 6 years & speak Japanese. They have little confidence in the honesty or friendship of the Japs & assert that most of them are really stupid. The Japanese woman they say is charming but has had all independence crushed out of her by her education & her husband who is sulky & insulting to her at all times.