Intellectuals Say Former Policy Failed, Urge New Line in Dealing with Nanking Tokyo. 'HE liquidation of the Liangkwang situation has caused a change in the attitude of Japan toward China.
The misconception held by many Japanese that China would never be unified but remain in a disorganized state was shattered by the quick suppress sion of the recent recalcitrant move in the south by the Chinese Government.
Japanese political circles are witnessing a unified China" emerging from chaos. Genuine unification. of the nation, they realize, may not be ahead, as obstacles to this end are being' removed by the Chinese Government and the general desire for national unity is becoming more apparent, In_view of the changed situation in China Japanese intellectual circles are clamouring for a change of Japan's traditional' policy " vis-d-vis 'China which was formulated under the false impression that she would ever Became a united' state.
Representative of this attitude of the "Japanese intellectuals Is "Mr. Rikuro Takagi, who, in two articles on China published in the "Revue Diplomatique" and the "Bungeishun iyu" respectively, reviewed China's Progress in aviation, railway and highway reconstruction, banking,
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