JAPANESE POLICY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 May 1941, Page 5

JAPANESE POLICY

LIKELY TO BECOME BRISK | ACCORDING TO TOKIO PAPER. FOREIGN MINISTER'S VISIT TO SHRINE. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.) LONDON, May 4. The Tokio newspaper “Asahi Shimbun” predicts that Japan’s foreign policy will become brisk after the return of the Foreign Minister, Mr Matsuoka, tomorrow from, the Grand Shrine of the Sun Goddess at Ise. He left yesterday by train to visit the shrine in order to “report” on the results of his European trip. The “Asahi” said that Japan’s only remaining question'was the attitude to be taken toward the United States, which had “come to show serious concern about Japan's southward policy. How this country will proceed in this respect undoubtedly depends on the future development of the international situation.” Mr Matsuoka is reported to have rejected flatly suggestions that he should go to the United States for the purpose of ascertaining the American attitude to the war. According to the Domei agency. Mr Matsuoka said it would be far more appropriate for President Roosevelt or the Secretary of State. Mr Hull, to go to Tokio to learn about actual conditions in the Far East.