"Japan's attitude towards China remains firm and unchanged," Masayuki Tani. newly~appointed Minister-at-Large dispatched to Shanghai, declared at noon yesterday on his arrival in Shanghai from Japan in the s. Nagasaki Maru. "The stand of the Tokyo authorities, the diplomat continued, had been frequently outlined in' statements made by Prince Konoye, the Premier. No modifications had been introduced in those pronouncements, Mr. Tani emphasized.
Questioned as to the prospects for the organization of the proposed Central China Industrial Development Company, Mr. Tani declared himself confident that the Y.100,- 000,000 capital needed by the firm could be raised in Japa "It will not be very hard to obtain Y.100,000,000 if a real effort is made to raise that sum," he said.
Mr. Tani, who will occupy the now vacant official residence of the Japanese Ambassador to China in Route Pichon, said he would meet foreign diplomats stationed in Shanghai "whenever the need arises."
The Minister-at-Large was met at the wharf by Mr. Suemasa Okamoto, outgoing Japanese Consul-General here; Mr. Akiyoshi Tajiri, First Secretary of the Embassy; Mr. Katsuzo Okumura, Embassy Secretary, and other Japanese diplomatic officials.
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