'The newspaper expected Admiral Kichisaburo' Nomura, new Foreign Minister, to pursue a policy of eliminating unnecessary disputes with the Soviet Union by taking advantage of the betterment of Soviet-Japanese relations following the conclusion of the Nomonhan truce agreement, The "Asahi" also forecast the elevation to Ambassadorship of both Mr. Eiji Amaw Minister to Switz and, and of Mr, Shigeru Kuriyama, Minister to Scandinavia, Mr. Ainu, Masayuki Tani, former Minister-at-Large in China, to be Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs, who formerly served a5 the director fof the Bureay of information of the Foreign Office, will probably be assigned to Rome succeeding Mr. Toshio. Shirator!' who bus been The "Kokumin Shimbun" reports that a reshutting of diplomatic personnel will be carried out by the new Foreign Minister.
The paper points out that General Hirosht Oshima, the Japanese Ambassador in Berlin, already has been recalled.—Reuter, recalled, Mr. Kensuke Horinouchi, Ambas= sador in Washington, and Lieul.-Gen, Tiroshi Oshima, Envoy to. Berlin, would also be' replaced, the Asahi further forecast~—Domel.
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