With the next Diet session <elvedit-Importance Attached to Talks in Tokyo; eq to take place on December 23, ance Ministry is speeding up Settlement of Fishery Dispute Sought ination of budgets and 'Tokyo, Nov. 17. APANESE newspapers continue to ay up sympathetically the'
interview on Wednesday afternoon between M. Smetanin, the Soviet Ambassador, and Admiral Nomut the Japanese Foreign admit itting that the interview was of special significance, reveals that the Foreign Minister frankly submitted Japan's desires regarding the fisheries and other issues outstanding between the two countries.
He is said to have declared that Japan desires to hold negoti tions on the fisheries question in Tokyo, although not objecting to parallel negotiations in Tokyo and Moscow on other issues.
The newspaper believes that Admiral Nomura expressed a desire for an eight-year Ashery pact, thus obvi ing the negotiating of a temporary pact every year, and paving the way for a restoration of normal relations, "especially if the Soviet Union shows a ce-operative attitude towards Japan's efforts to establish a new order in East Asia'
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