The new Japanese regulations with regard to British applications for visas to Japan were merely a routine matter, said Mr. Kawasaki, Embassy spokesman, at yesterday's press conference here. He that the "North-China Daily News" gave a fair and accurate account of the new r unlike some other newspapers which tried to make a big news story of the matter. In requiring more time for applications to be sent to Tokyo. the passport department placed the emphasis on the individual rather than on nationality said Mr. Kawasaki, and the precaution was one taken throughout the world, especially in the present circumstances.
Reports of shipments of mar materials by Japan to Germany were also mentioned by Mr. Kawasaki who simply stated that Japan herself needed as much war material as she could get hold of.
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