He made this declaration in a review of Soviet-Japanese relations, with emphasis on the fisheries issue.
"Our relations with the Soviet Union," Mr. Arita admitted, "became extremely strained at the time of the Changkaofeng affair which, however, was settled through appropriate action on our part before it assumed serious proportions, In North Saghalien, illegal interference with our concession rights pertaining to oil and coal have not ceased as yet, rendering the exercise of those tights more and more difficult," he declared.
"As regards the fishery question, although we continued to exert our utmost efforts for the conclusion of a treaty, a draft whereof has long been mutually agreed upon, negotia. tions have failed owing to questions which have been injected into the discussions by the Soviet Government and which have no relevance upon the fishery treaty," he stated.
Development of Manchoukuo for tne establishment of the Empire of Manchoukuo, the Japanese Government, having in view the neighbour ly and inseparable relationship existing between Japan and that country, has made its national policy io ce-operate towards her healthy development as an independent state.
"But critics have not been few, as you know, who attacked this programme for collaboration between the two countries as a disguised form of territorial aggrandizement on the part of Japan or as a measure calculated io destroy or to drive out the rights and interests of third Powers.
"Now what are the actual results that have been achieved during the past six years since the foundation of the new state? Laws and systems of government have been set up in due Succession and the work of developing natural resources is progressing apace so that thirty million people of the land are living happily and secure of their livelihood "National foundations have been consolidated more firmly than ever and seven Powers already have extended recognition to the empire.
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