After the Wakatsuki Kenseikai Cabinet fell, on April 20, 1927, the Tanaka Seiyukai Cabinet was formed. It was a pressing need for the Tanaka Cabinet to establish a new policy about the Chinese rights-recovery movement, rising Chinese nationalism, Japan's relation with Chang Tso-lin, protection of Japan's interests in Manchuria when the Nationalist armies of China were marching on Peking. Tanaka emphasized the need for pursuing a “positive” policy in order to break through Japan's national “crisis” at home and abroad. He convened the Eastern Conference to deal with above mentioned problems in Tokyo from June 27 to July 7.
This paper intends to analyze problems of the Eastern Conference, and examines intentions of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Army, the detail of the conference, the course of negotiation concerned with questions pending of Manchuria. In the conclusion, this paper attempts to study specific characters of the early Tanaka Diplomacy to China in relation with the Washington System and Shidehara Diplomacy.
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