Japanese People Are Advised Not To Suggest Emigration
N ZP A—C opy right Rec. 11.5 p.m. TOKIO, May 10. The Prime Minister, Mr Shigeru Yoshida, today advised the Japanese people not to suggest emigration as the solution of Japan’s population problem as it would cause “ unfavourable repercussions ” in Australia and New Zealand, reports the newspaper Yomiuri. Mr Yoshida expressed this advice to a conference of prefectural governors which met in private in Tokio. Mr Yoshida claimed that he was particularly careful in discussing this
matter as he did not want to arouse foreign feeling and “spoil the peace conference.” Mr Yoshida assured the governors that Japan had good cause for the return of the Shikotan and Hasomai groups of islands in the Russian-occu-pied Kuriles and also Amai and Oshima, midway between Japan and American-occupied Okinawa. He warned, however, that any agitation at this time might spoil the chances of getting them back at the peace conference.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27386, 11 May 1950, Page 7
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