WITHDRAWAL DECISION OF
MAY, 1941
TOKIO, December 21. Prince Konoye's memoirs reveal that the Japanese Cabinet, with full, army and navy support, agreed in May, 1941, to accede to American demands for a withdrawal from China. The memoirs contain ample evidence of Japan's conviction that the China adventure was a complete fiasco, disastrously weakening the empire. Cabinet's decision to withdraw from China was conditional upon both sides refraining from making public the peace conditions lest Japan lose too much face. , . Japan agreed to the following terms: First, Chinese independence; secondly, the withdrawal of Japanese forces; thirdly, non-annexation of Chinese territory; fourthly, no reparations; fifthly, the restoration of the open-door policy; sixthly, the amalgamation of the Chiang and Wang Ching-wei Governments; seventhly, Japanese mass migration to China; eighthly, recognition of Manchuria.
Prince Konoye's Cabinet resigned on October 16, 1941, and gave place to the To jo Cabinet, which went to war on December 7 following.
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Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 150, 22 December 1945, Page 7
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