GREATER EAST ASIA
JAPAN'S ASPIRATIONS ALL OBSTACLES IN PATH MUST BE CRUSHED TOKIO, September 13. (Received September 14, at 12.35 p.m.) Mr Matsuoka (Foreign Minister), addressing the Japanese Trade Association, said Japan’s Greater East Asia programme at present was concentrated on the acquisition of materials and arranging sources of supply, to which Mr Kobayashi’s assignment to the Dutch East Indies was related. “In establishing a Greater East Asia and common prosperity in that sphere it is necessary to co-operate with countries having similar aspirations, simultaneously to crush all obstacles in our path,” he said. “ Japan, in order to cope with the present complex international situation, must put her house in order domestically and strengthen national defence and national power, and, in accordance with the spirit of the imperial way, let each Asiatic race fulfil its own ambition, so that all countries shall enjoy and maintain common prosperity.” Regarding trade with countries not belonging to the East Asiatic sphere, Mr Matsuoka said barter methods would be increased.
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Evening Star, Issue 23681, 14 September 1940, Page 12
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166GREATER EAST ASIA Evening Star, Issue 23681, 14 September 1940, Page 12
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