Tokyo, Aug. 4 The Japanese Foreign Office is aiting full details from the Japan-Ambassador to the Court of St James', Mr. Marmoru Shigemitsu, who has been instructed by the Foreign Minister, Mr. Yosuke Matsuoka, to make exhaustive enquiries into the jo t of two leading Japanese businessmen resident in London Should the explanations forthcoming fail to give complete satisfaction to the Japanese authorities. political observers here believed that Matsuoka would summon the ior, Sir Robert to register a firm protest and request the fullest explanation of the British action in taking the Japanese subjects into custody The official report sent to the Gaimusho by the Japanese Embass: in London stated that the authorities arrested Mr. Sator Makihara, manager of the London branch of the bishi Shoji Kai his residence at 9.15 o'clock on Friday night, and late that night arrested Mr. Shunsuke of the London Mitsui Bussan both ese businessmen being taken into custody on warrants drawn up under the recent regi tion: controlling foreigners under the article giving powers detention rather than deportation.
No formal charge has been drawn up against the two Japanece subjects apart from the basis of the warrant empowered by the Defences of th: Rea'm regulations stressed that in the event no better Well-informed observers here
ounds exist for the arrests than a move in retaliation for the arrest in Japan of a number of British subjects on charges of espionage, the Japanese Gòvernment would hardly be able to overlook the matter. A vigorous protest and the demand for the fullest explanation would accordingly be made, these quarters concluded.—Domei.
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