Office of the Historian

The Japanese Ambassador to the Secretary of State.1

[undated]

The Governments of Japan and Russia have for some time been engaged in examining the Russo-Japanese convention of July 17–30, 1907, with a view to seeing if it might not be possible by means of additional stipulations to strengthen and confirm the situation with which that convention had to deal. Happily, the two powers have been able to reach an accord on the subject. That accord is embodied in the new convention, and the Imperial Government believe that the Government to which you are accredited will find in such convention fresh guaranties as to the maintenance of the status quo in Manchuria and the consolidation of peace in the extreme east.2

  1. A telegram from the minister of foreign affairs, Tokyo, received at Washington, July 5, 1910. Left at the Department of State by a Secretary of the Japanese Embassy.↩
  2. For convention, copy of which accompanied this note, see supra.↩