Show I JAPANESE MINISTER EXPLAINS Disavows Any Hostility of Japan Towards Annexation T Washington Dec nThe return of Mr Hoshi the Japanese minister from a leave of absence in Japajl has drawn renewed attention to the question of Japans attitude toward Hawaiian annexation an-nexation Mr Hoshi stated to a representative repre-sentative of the Associated Press that while he had no intention of discussing discuss-ing in the newspapers offidial relations of his country and the United States he thought it was due to both governments govern-ments to disavow m the most public manner the sentiments and designs regarding re-garding Hawaiian annexation frequently fre-quently attributed to Japan in the press of this country He felt it to be his duty he said to state that it is absolutely untrue that the Japanese government is opposed in any manner whatever to the annexation of Hawaii to time United States Nothing could be further from the truth I is true that Japan at one time formally protested pro-tested against annexation but that protest was intended to protect certain clearly defined rights pertaining to Japan and her people which momentarily momen-tarily appeared to be imperiled Subsequent Sub-sequent event Mr Hoshi added have shown that the Japanese government was right m the belief frankly expressed ex-pressed in that pro st that Japan could confidently rely upon the gqod feeling and the good faith of the United States to make no hasty nor illconsidered step subversive to the rights of a government and a people with whom this government and the American people have always maintained main-tained the closest and most cordial relations re-lations And while the question cannot yet be regarded as definitely settled I in all particulars Mr Hoshi said that he had no hesitation in expressing the II firm conviction that all matters of mutual mu-tual concern between the United States I I and Japan arising from the annexation 1 I I honorably annexa-tion of Hawaii adjusted would be equitably and I To an Inquiry regarding the instructions 1 i instruc-tions with which his government had I l I entrusted him durln his recent visit to Japan Mr Hoshi stated that while I of course he could not reveal the nature na-ture of those instructions i was not improper fqr him to say that they were I of a kind in his opinion to facilitate materially jthe eUlenient of the ques M J z tions resulting from the annexation of Hawaii in which Japan can rightfully claim to be interested There is no reason he said why the full and frank discussion and in the end the just settlement of all such questions should create the slightest friction between I be-tween the two countries |