As the issuance of entrance visas for about four hundred Japanese immigrants to Brazil, who were due to leave Kobe by the Montevideo Maru on May 21, was delayed for lack of proper procedure due to the fact that regulations had not been decided upon for the enforcement of the Brazilian order restricting entrance visas promulgated on April 9 of this year, the Japanese Government, through their Ambassador in Brazil, Itaro Ishii, negotiated with the Brazilian Government to solve the question. These negotiations failed to be concluded in time to enable the immigrants to leave and the Montevideo Maru left Kobe without them, on May 26.
The Japanese Government have continued the negotiations for a satisfactory settlement of the question through Ambassador Ishii, who has reported to the Foreign Office to the effect that, as a result of his conference with President Vargas on May 29, a sanction has been given for the granting of visas for the said four hundred Japanese, and that the Brazilian Government has, on May 31, sent telegraphic instructions to its consul at Kobe.