Japan’s Friendship with the United States
Baron Yasuya Uchida, the Japanese ambassador to this country, emphatically declared before a special audience in Washington that there was nothing hostile in Japan's attitude toward the United States. "There can be no serious misunderstanding," he says, "between my country and the United States. The traditional friendship between the two countries is too great and too strong for the severing of present relations. Nearly thirty-five per cent of Japan's export trade is with the United States. It would be manifestly absurd to destroy this or even hamper it. . . . The whole agitation is preposterous. It is nonsensical; and the thinking people of America, I am sure, characterize it as such." He also declares that there is no secret understanding with Mexico, nor are any new arrangements contemplated.