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...Foreign Minister of Japan exchanged direct communications on the subject of improving relations between the two nations. The text of both these diplomatic nosegays, sent month ago but published only last week, said precious little at great length, but did contain one significant sentence each. Wrote Foreign Minister Koki Hirota...
...State to the Navy Department where Secretary Swanson explained that under a law passed in 1918. no foreigners may own real estate in Guam. The Japanese had just transferred his property to his daughter-in-law, a U. S. citizen, and now everybody was happy. ¶ Foreign Minister Hirota next turned his attention to Brazil. Japanese emigrants have been flocking to Brazil in late years. More than 150,000 of them are settled there on little farms, growing rice and mulberry trees, tapping rubber, raising coffee. In 1933, 23,152 entered the country. A bill is now before the Brazilian...
...Japanese leases because she felt that with the yen off gold they no longer represented a fair value. From Moscow last week went a new offer. Russia would accept the present Japanese bids provided Japan will reopen the entire matter before next year's auction. This Minister Hirota refused to do, claiming that 282 of the disputed fishing grounds were already definitely leased until 1936. It was not the money, said Koki Hirota, it was the principle of the thing...
Tokyo, which put him on his throne, celebrated the occasion with gusto. There were receptions and banquets. Young men's marching clubs and army reservists tramped through the streets of Tokyo with lanterns. Cried Foreign Minister Koki Hirota: ''Today's happy event was brought about by the will of Heaven and is in perfect accord with the wish of the people...
What part the stalemate in the great Russo-Japanese haggle over the sale of the Chinese Eastern Railway (TIME, Feb. 12) had in all this only the Russians knew. Soviet Ambassador Konstantin Yurenev told Japan's Foreign Minister Koki Hirota that the Soviet Government was ready to "reconsider the invalidation of the bids by Japanese fishery interests." Thereupon Minister Hirota announced that "independent" Manchukuo and the Soviet Union may soon agree on a sale price for the Chinese Eastern...