JAPANESE POLICY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 45, 22 January 1926, Page 8

JAPANESE POLICY.

FOREIGN MINISTER’S SPEECH. Received January 22, 1.40 p.m. TOKIO, Jan. 21. Baron Shideliara, Foreign. Minister, addressing the re-convened Diet, stressed Japan’s liberal attitude towards China and Russia. Referring to relations with tho Soviet, ho declared that Japan would not seek the exclusive friendship of any nation. Ho found no evidence justifying the suspicion of Russia’s attitude in Northern Manchuria.

Regarding America’s exclusion of Japanese, he said that no riseful purposo would be served by discussing it at the present juncture. His only desire was to make plain that tho Japanese feeling of deep regret remain unchanged. It was not Japan’s polio yto send emigrants to any country which would not welcome them. Her constant dcsiro was to supply capital and labour to tho undeveloped regions of the world, thereby promoting the welfare and prosperity not only of tho emigrants and the mother country, but of the lands where tho Japancso established permanent homes. Replying to a question upon the China-Russian position, Baron Siclohara said it was purely a matter between theso countries and unlikely to culminate in hostilities. Japan was vigiliantly watching in view of possible developments requiring futui-o action. —Sydney Sun cable.