19 DECEMBER 1931, Page 3

A New Japanese Ministry The Japanese Cabinet headed by Baron

Wakatsuki, F the Minseito party, resigned last week. Mr. Adatchi, the Home Minister, had declared in favour of a national Ministry and left his party, and this defection apparently made the Premier's position untenable in spite of his large majority in the Lower House. On Sunday Mr. Inukai, the veteran leader of the Seiyukai party, formed a new Ministry. Mr. Adatchi is not a member of it, and only seven of his colleagues in the Minseito party have left it with him. It is expected that the new Premier's son-in-law, Mr. Yoshizawa, who is well known at Geneva, will soon be appointed to the Foreign Office, hut the foreign policy of Japan will not be affected by the change of Government.