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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...
...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...
...General Araki caught it. As the epidemic was brought under control he was said to have pneumonia. With Parliament about to reassemble this week Japan's politicians looked for a chance to reassert themselves as the War Minister lay abed. Japan's new Foreign Minister, Mr. Koki Hirota, recently her Ambassador to Moscow, hoped for a chance to launch with caution a somewhat more conciliatory policy toward Russia...