The Japanese department of foreign affairs announced a day earlier that the cabinet would make public on24 October the headlines of the naval policy in the coming period. For further negotiations with other countries could only found place taking into account this policy. The still existing naval treaty was no longer by Japan accepted and she would do proposals for future naval shipbuilding especially regarded the air force and the increase of decrease of all offensive weapons. In the meantime demonstrated in the Neno park on a large scale residents of Tokyo demanding that the naval conferences were continued with a result a new naval treaty based on equal armaments and abolition of the Naval treaty of Washington.(1) This demand or resolution was send to the ministers of foreign affairs and navy.
Note
1. The Washington Naval Treaty was signed by the United States, United Kingdom, Japan, Italy and France on 6 February 1922 as a result of the Washington Naval Conference of November 1921-February 1922. The London Naval Treaty of 1930 modified the Washington treaty and was followed by the Second Naval treaty four years later. The Washington Naval Treaty was to limit the total tonnage of the total ships, a maximum tonnage of a battleship (no more as 35,560 tons) and a maximum calibre of 16” or 40,6cm guns. These Naval Treaties influenced the naval strengths and strategies of the countries which were involved in the Second World war seriously. Japan stated officially on 29 December 1934 not longer to accept the terms of the treaty which became effective in 1936.
