At yesterday's press conference when a correspondent asked for a definition of Japan's policy of a "new order in East Asia" from a legal point of view, the Embassy spokesman stated that only last week Mr. Joseph Grew, American Ambassador to Tokyo, "seemed to comment on various aspects but it went without saying that Japan's policy concerned her own interests but also took into consideration the rights of other powers concerned.
"To discuss the new order policy as a system whereby Japan would monopolize their resources of East Asia was biassed and short-sighted and not adapted to facts, The policy does not aim at a Japanese, monopoly in this part of the world," added the spokesman,
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