With heading at top "Australian Star / Sydney, Thursday, January 21, 1909 / A BIT OF DATA ON THE JAPANESE QUESTION / Written specially for the Star by Jack London . . ." First word of the text "When" is handprinted in blue ink. The Londons were in Tasmania at the time Jack wrote the text. This is believed to be an original carbon copy of the draft typed by Charmian for publication. Recorded by Charmian in the list of Jack's works in the appendix of her "The Book of Jack London" as "The Japanese Question;" noted in "Jack London: A Definitive Chronology" by Russ Kingman as "On the Japanese Question." Not in BAL, not in Woodbridge. Provenance: from the collection of Russ Kingman.