AIMS ENTIRELY PACIFIC
JAPAN AND THE NATIONS.
TERRITORIAL AMBITIONS DENIED.
By Toleerapli-PreßS Association-Copyi icrht Sydnoy, January 7. Mr. Sliimizu, tho new Japancso Consul, in an interviqw, said that he strongly resented the implications, contained in certain advertisements, that Japan wished to take Australia. Sho did not, ho said, desiro to take the land of anyone; if she expanded al> all it would be by.way of trade. Hβ did not think that the increase in Japanese population would necessitate territorial expansion. Many of them could go Plawaii or Brazil, and as they <lid not cease to be Japanese citizens, Japan could afford to allow the surplus population to leave. He declared that war with Russia or the United States was in the last degroo remote. Jnpan's aims were entirely pacific.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1952, 8 January 1914, Page 5
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129AIMS ENTIRELY PACIFIC Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1952, 8 January 1914, Page 5
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