Tokyo, Feb. 14, A resolution urging Japan to claim its own share in the South Polar regions by right of explorations made 20 years.ago by a Japanese expedition headed by Lieutenant Choku Shirase, retired, was passed at a meeting to commemorate the Japanese Antarctic Expedition of 1911, according to the "Kokumin."
Present at the hall were Lieutenant Shirase and other living members. of the party who retold their adventures of 30 years ago.
The meeting adopted a resolution ask the Government through the Diet to make claim on the regler explored by the party at once, Mr. Taneo Miyazawa, member of the House of Representatives, and Mar~ quis Nobutsune Okuma, member of the House of Peers. will use thei [geod offices to transmit the resolute to the respective Houses of the Diet Reuter.
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