The Archive · 1936

Feeling Against Japan Queried

Foreign Office Man Looks for Real Causes Serious thought should be devoted by Japanese officialdom to the anti-'Japanese feeling prevalent in China, especially-among the students, in the opinion of Mr. Kazue Kuwajima, rector of the Bureau of East Asiati Affairs of the Tokyo Foreign Ofice. believe it will be necessary for [Japan to evolve measures to cope with this feeling, not under the as-]sumption that this sentiment 's being engendered by the Nanking Government, the Kuomintang, or the Communists, but realizing that its roots ie somewhere else," the official told apanese reporters on June 29.

"T intend to make a detailed report this when T return home and seek to establish a policy designed to remove this. feeling." Mr, Kuwajima said.

"Essentially, T believe that, although the outlook is dark, because of the large number of unsolved issues between China and Japan at this moment, the two countries are de-Stined to ce-operate and never to remain traditional enemies, "Tam convinced that it the two! governments and the two peoples realize this, all problems will be easily solved," he remarked, Mr, Kuwajima, who has just completed an extensive tour of North and Central China, was confident that conditions in Hopel and Shantung would show 2 marked improvement Before any concrete Sino-Japanese economic ce-operation can be effected, however, it will be necessary to form 'a. frm. Chinese administration in these areas, he added.

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