JAPANESE EXPANSION
Lease in Dutch New Guinea Advocated - Tok io, March 23. The expansion of Japanese influence south of the Equator, where her mandate terminates, was the subject of a speech in the House of Representatives by Mr. H. Sakurai, former Parliamentary Under-Secretary of Overseas Affairs.
Mr. Sakurai advocated that Japan should apply to Holland for a permanent lease of land in Dutch New Guinea on which to settle surplus Japanese population and produce raw materials.
The Prime Minister, General S. Hayashi, promised to remember Mr. Sakurai’s suggestion. He emphasised that Japan’s peaceful commercial penetration in the South Seas did not threaten the Dutch territory.
Mr. Kuwashima, Japanese Minister to the Netherlands, is at present touring the Dutch East Indies preparatory to submitting a report on them. There are already large Japanese investments in Dutch New -Guinea, the Moluccas, and the Celebes, while Mindanao supports'' 20,000 Japanese settlers.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 153, 25 March 1937, Page 11
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