Greetings,

As stated before, our course of action will be determined once more information is available as to what exactly happened between German and Japanese forces. While we are hopeful that war may be avoided, it will be difficult to maintain good relations with a country at war with both of our allies. It also doesn't help that Japanese ambassadors to a number of European nations have attempted to fan hatred and criticism of the Triple Alliance as a whole, of which Italy is a part of, and we do not feel we are to blame for any conflicts between the European nations. As a matter of fact, our calls for diplomacy and rationality played a large role in de-escalating the Tsar Nicholas II's assassination investigation crisis. Our current disagreement with Britain has been entirely precipitated by British greed and it is only natural for a nation such as Italy to refuse to abandon lands that have been rightfully colonized by our pioneers.

Again, in time we will decide how to deal with this most unfortunate situation, but we find it hard to believe your message to our embassy as very truthful given other Japanese statements that paint Italy as a warmonger.

"We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. The martyrs go hand in hand into the arena; they are crucified alone. Embraced, the lovers desperately try to fuse their insulated ecstasies into a single self-transcendence; in vain. By its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude. Sensations, feelings, insights, fancies - all these are private and, except through symbols and at second hand, incommunicable. We can pool information about experiences, but never the experiences themselves. From family to nation, every human group is a society of island universes."
-Aldous Huxley