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Such friendly sentiments toward the U. S. evoked a chorus of disapproval in the Lower House of the Diet. Representative Nakamura in- terpellated Foreign Minister Shidehara with reference to U. S. Naval maneuvers in the Pacific...
...Baron Shidehara replied...
Much interest was evinced at the able speech made by Foreign Minister Baron Shidehara (onetime Ambassador to Washington). After declaring that his foreign policy would be to promote and to protect Japanese interests "with due respect to those of other nations," and after affirming Japan's duty to be the maintenance of peace in the Far East and on the Pacific, he dwelt upon three points: exclusion, relations with Russia, relations with China. Excerpts...
Jefferson Caffery, U. S. Chargé d'Affaires, called upon Foreign Minister Baron Shidehara (onetime Ambassador to the U. S.) and asked him to make immediate investigation. Twice did the Foreign Minister call upon Mr. Caffery in order to express his concern over the incident and to offer the "most sincere regrets" of his Government. "Surely," said he, "no one in the U. S. would believe the Japanese people capable of sympathizing with an outrage of this kind " He also said that the police would do their utmost to apprehend the culprit-which they later succeeded in doing...
...note was despatched from Tokyo by Foreign Minister Kijuro Shidehara to Washington, for transmittance by Japanese Ambassador Masanao Hanihara to the U. S. State Department...