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On January 1939 during the tome of [[strikethrough]] Hĭrănŭmă [[/strikethrough]] [[chinese characters]] cabinet, Japan was asked by Germany to conclude a three-power military alliance on the base of mutual defense against Communism and the intended to take advantage of this alliance to provoke a world war. But our enemy Japan,who has been hampered by our resistance war and had already lost her aggressive position,was compelled to prolong it until autumn of that year when Hitler suddenly changed his plans and signed a mutual non-aggression treaty with Russia. Shortly after this war in Europe started.
In the meantime the Hĭrănŭmă cabinet crashed under the condiiton of fear and doubt throughout the country. The succeedding cabinet of Ăbĕ and Yŏnăĭ [[chinese characters]] was too obliged to declare that Japan would not interfere with the european war,trying to get away with the matter for the time being. In February of the same year,Japan had expanded her actions of military aggression and occupied the strategic points of the island of Hainan [[chinese characters]] , situated in the south of China. Thus Japan had established her base to invade the south and the whole situation of the South Pacific was greatly changed by this. The original national policy of Japan had been to invade the North,but now she was compelled to alter her plans,invading the south. Even for that,she never oculd free herself form the hinderance of China. This is the reason,why her plans of attacking Great Britain and the USA were postponed until three years later. We know that this change of basic national policy of Japan is nothing less,than the perfect success of our own national policy. This was the focus of the failure of japanese" Continental Policy". During May and June 1940,Denmark,Norway,Holland,Belgium and France were occupied by Germany. This was no small surprise for Japan.