Mr. Tokonami then traced the struggle Japan had to go through to get rid of unilateral treaties and said-that most Japanese were consequently quite weir disposed towards' the goal China was striving to attain, only if the Chinese leaders would embrace a procedure that respected the rights of others, adding that Japan and China were futed £9 ce-exist and prosper side by side, "are passengers in the some boat," was the expression he used.
"China and Japan are indispens sable to each other," he went on, ind the closeness of the relations [between the two, geographically, racially, and nationally, is beyond dispute."
Then, reverting to the Sino-Japanese both inevitable defensive measures and were not in any way prompted by Imperialistic motives or by any other predatory purposes."
As the result of these wars, he went on, "wars that should be acempted as the most nature! Jeourse of action in the history of mankind," Japan secured special rights in Manchuria and Mongoli" which were threatened by the lenz civil wars of China and the anti-
Japanese agitations that sprang up from time to time.
"In the face of these facts," he continued, "any policy of inactivity in those regions, in the name of non-intervention, "inevitably—constitutes an obstacle to the expansion of the Yamato Japanese race and cheves Japan, in consequence, t> protect her acquired rights and in-forests in these regions by means of a legitimate and firm positive policy."
"Plippant" Foreign Policy Commenting on the present for-ign policy of Japan, he declared that is was extremely "flippant jand that the effect on the masses was such as to breed deplorable uneasiness. In the realm of finance, hho raid he stood for thorough-going retrenchment and was in favour of the lifting of the ban on the exportation of gold. As regards the tough problem of the country, Mf. Tokonami held that this was caused by the infiltration of extreme ideas and because of the growing tendency to evaluat: life from only a material point of view, His solution for this ill was Jan active interest by the authorities the social life of the people, with special emphasis laid on the spirit tual, rather than merely the spects and worthiness of thought it would be a task to steer away from party and class strife.
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