Tokyo, Jan. 9.
America will be urged to face actual conditions in the Far East, "without prejudice or preconceived ideas" by the Japanese Foreign Minister, Mr. Hachiro Aritp, in Diet address to be delivered on January 21 when the Japanese Parliament re-opens after a New Year's recess, the "Tokyo Nichi-Nichi," influential daily, predicted yesterday.
In an indirect reply to the American Note of December 31, refusing to recognize the setting-up of a new order in East Asia under a Japanese aegis, Mr. Arita will declare that Japan's military operations on the Asiatic continent are not motivated by aggressive designs but are intended to safeguard Japan's national existence, Appealing to American popular opinion, the "Nichi-Nichi" said, Mr. Arita will point out the contentions put forth in the Amei n Note were the outcome of a "conceptional diplomacy" regarding the respect for treaties being followed by Washington.
Official quarters in Tokyo, the newspaper continued, hope that Mr. Arite's projected address will help the American people to understand the special political and economic conditions prevailing in the Far East as direct consequence of the present conflict.
Meanwhile, the "Nichi-Nichi" indicated that a formal Japanese reply o the American Note would be delayed. Japanese officialdom, the newspaper-atated, want time to study the repercussions to President Franklin D. Roosevelts Congress message of Jenuary 3.
An answer at the present timè, the paper added, is considered "inopportune" in view of "prevailing condi-
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