'The speaker stated that Japan had participated in 44. conferences during: the year. While not essentially interested in these, Japan could not confine herself' to an isolated existence in one corner of the Far Bast. He declared that Japan must regulate her relations with foreign countries on faith in ternational ce-operation, the era of which was dawning.
Discussing China, Baron Shidehara paid a tribute to the success of the endorsed policy laid down 3 previously, which policy Japan had consistently conformed with during the recent war, of respecting China's position while safeguarding her own, without rrexsive territorial designs anywhere in China, and without interference inher' domestic concerns.
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