PACIFIC PROBLEMS

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 183, 24 October 1927, Page 3

PACIFIC PROBLEMS

UNDERSTANDING NEEDED

*TJ? e growing importance of the Pacific makes it most necessary that there should be friendly relations between the great Pacific countries.

Australia is not as well known in Japan as it Should be, just as Australians do not know as much of Japan as they should. It is my object to increase the knowledge that these two countries have of each other, as a their mutual lindenstanding and friendship.” These statements were made by the Japanese Consul-General, Mr. I. Tokugawa, upon his return to Sydney last eek by the steamer Mishma Muru, alter a several months’ visit to Japan. npr of Japanese international Mr * Tokugawa said that he thof u i k ? to cori *ect the impression jnai had been given by certain newspaper cables to Australian readers, apanese newspapers had published itonals dealing with the recent coniotf„ nCe °£, the Institute of Pacific Refwi nS * uc h editorials were written a purely economic and technical rS dP< J int ’ and should not be ’mis*or an ex Pt*ession of Japanese JIH! 0 ?’ as the newspaper cables seemed to imply. kino^ 118 part of th e policy of the Hr£ ane u e Government to send popula- ** wou ld not be welcome. , pr °t>lem of Japan’s surplus unr fK OO lad been temporarily solved, v* ® \ here was room for some in ti ii ome for Japanese migrants th« » kkaido ’ the northern island of and in Korea. tnrta »f reg m l ’ d to J a Panese-Australiari * Ir ; Tokugawa said that there for a,w * n< r reas i n E‘ market in Japan larpoit, i ra t , an vvooI > which was used forth , tke niaking of fine materials In cl pthing of Japanese women. the adverse trade balance fair J*Pan, however, it seemed only irnn,i 0 hat t Al,straila should buy more of make’ Whlch Australia did not herself