PEACE FOR THE PACIFIC.

Otago Witness, Issue 3757, 16 March 1926, Page 9

PEACE FOR THE PACIFIC.

CO-OPERATION WITH JAPAN JAPANESE CONSUL’S VIEWS. AUCKLAND, March 10. The opinion that Japan, Australia and New Zealand should unite and co-operaia by all means to help to maintain the peace of the Pacific is held by Mr lycmasa Tokugawa, Consul General for Japan iu Australia and New Zealand. Mr Tokugawa who has his headquarters in Sydney is cn bis first visit to New Zealand. Ho was appointed consul general in December last. In an interview to day Mr Tokugawa said that since the war the Pacific had loomed large as a centre of world-power and he believed the tendency would be for it to grow more and more so. This was all the - mole reason why it wa3 necessary for nations bordering the Pacific to unite. He thought that America and perhaps Canada could also co-operate. “Japan and things Japanese are not known in this part of the world as they should be,” he said, “and conversely this part of the world is not known enough iu Japan. The first thing to be done then is for these countries to gain a greater knowledge cf one another. One means is in an interchange of visits.” Speaking of New Zealand, Mr Tokugawa said he was much impressed with the splendid and progressive way things were being done here. Japan was a new country as far a modern civilisation waa concerned, and likewise Australia and New Zealand. Mr Tokugawa left this evening for Wellington where he will pay his respects to the Prime Minister. He will visit Christchurch and Dunedin and will leave for Sydney from Wellington on March 19.