POLICY OF JAPAN.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 424, 5 February 1909, Page 5

POLICY OF JAPAN.

GOOD RELATIONS.

RESTRICTION OF EMIGRATION.

TRADE RECIPROCITY. I (bt XB[,Eaß4rjt—ritEss association—copieiqut.) I • Toklo, February 3. ' ■ Count , Komura, Japanese Minister for Foroign Affaira (and ■ formerly Japaneso Ambassador to Groat Britain), speaking intho I) i ot, .in si steel on Japan's good relations with : all the Powers. : , Tho alliance between Japan and Britain, | he, said,; stood..on'.-an. enduring foundation, j Japan: , was relying on the sense of- justice Americans 'regarding 1 an ti-Japanese * legist ■ Japanosfi should,-W. declared, con*, contratein the Far East, and the Government | was enforcing the restriction of emigration to tbo United States.' .0' ■ ' Count Komura announced ; that' Japan would .notify tho Powers in 1910 of the ter-' jmmation of all existing treaties ' —giving a yearns notice—with a 'view .tonegotiating new treaties.. on . a basis' of reciprocity. , SIR EDWARD GREY. ON THE ALLIANCE. T r e r„? riti - Se . cr st af y,f°>; Foreigi.Affairs, Sir ° 'Alliance that those who made at six years sine? believed at. time .that the''objects it had in' view were objects with wh'iohthewhole world miehfc'" sympathise, were: objects" which were direoted against no other Power, Wt were" . compatible with 1 the, welfare.of ; aUi •' That view has been.endorsed,'because in'the course of the' last. three years Japan: Has entered 'into airreements -: with other- Powers, ' :.aEr'eehients having more or . less the same objects' as '«»• Anglo-Japanese -Alliance: Because'■ other .nations; have done the'same]. we are entitled G thß .objects'.oC the Anglo-Japanese Alliance are more "secure' than ever; -and: because other, nations have shown;a disposition to-endorse":thejp, the objects arejnot-only motj secure,, but the ,pros- : pact of also is-more Beetle. ■