November 10, 1917 Last night I took the electric tram and dined with Turner and King of the Japan Advertiser, plus two other Americans, - an engineer and a business man. They live in a Japanese house of small size and have Japanese servants to do the household work. These men like the Japanese and have acquired a workable vocabulary in a few months of Japanese, but are not able to get beyond this point without much study. At the Advertiser office, (18 Yamashita-cho in Tokyo) I met the editor, B.W. Fleisher, an American who has lived in China and Japan for a score of years. We visited the Imperial Hotel, but found only some 15 or 20 guests; - the place presenting no such life as the Grand Hotel of Yokohama, which is filled, and the lobby of which is a center of foreign life here. There are quite a number of Russians in the Grand, and most of them have French appearance and French mannerisms. One man I have seen frequently in the dining room dining with a woman and a small child, and he greets this woman ceremoniously by kissing her hand when she arrives.