It has been clarified on many occasions that Japan pursues the policy of not stinting deep sympathy and fullest co-operation toward the construction
of a new India. In accordance with this policy, the Government have decided to revise the treatment of Indians who have hitherto been considered enemy nationals in so far as concerns the application of the laws for control of enemy property and of the asset freezing order from the standpoint of the relations between Britain and India by exempting Indians who understand Japan's war objectives and co-operate with her in the construction of greater East Asia from the application of the foregoing laws and by not treating them as enemy nationals even in small official matters. It is needless to say, however, that this new ruling excepts those who, not understanding the true intentions of Japan, commit acts of an enemy character.
The same treatment will be accorded to the peoples of the former territories of the United States, Britain and the Netherlands which are now under Japanese occupation, namely, the Philippines Commonwealth, Hongkong, British Borneo, British Malaya, Burma and the Netherlands East Indies.