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Message of Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoye to President Wang Ching-wei upon the Formation of the Third Konoye Cabinet

Type
Document
Date
July 1941
Speaker / issued by
Prince Fumimaro Konoye, Prime Minister of Japan
Printed in
Contemporary Japan, August, 1941, p. 1104
Section
Documentary Material: Exchange of Messages between Premier Fumimaro Konoye and President Wang Ching-wei; Announcement by the Board of Information, July 23, 1941

The recent Cabinet change was effected to render more vigorous the execution of national policies in meeting the world situation by perfecting and strengthening with speed the internal structure of our country. The fact that a renovation has been effected in the composition of the Cabinet through the change is as Your Excellency knows through our Government announcements and others.

There is, of course, no change whatever in Japan's foreign policy, and our fixed policy toward your country and the close and cordial relations between the two countries, which have further been strengthened through Your Excellency's recent visit to Japan, will remain unaffected in the least. I earnestly hope that Your Excellency will take note of this fact and continue to exert your valiant efforts for the stabilization of East Aaia [sic]. As for my part, I wish to add that, in accordance with the pledge made between Your Excellency and myself, I will continue to render with increasing effort a hearty co-operation for the collaboration between your country and mine and for the prosperity of China.

Transcription note

Item (1) of two. Announced by the Board of Information on July 23, 1941; the date of the message itself is not given. The introduction says the messages were exchanged upon the formation of the third Konoye Cabinet, "renewing thereby the determination of Japan and China to march bravely forward for the establishment of the new order in East Asia". "East Aaia" is the source's misprint.

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