The entire Japanese diplomacy tried to hide its goals with various tricks. On the initiative of the Japanese, negotiations on the division of China into spheres of influence begin in London. A group of Japanese journalists is sent to the United States to promote the strengthening of American-Japanese friendship and create an anti-Soviet situation. In August 1931, Japanese monopoly oligarch Okura held meetings with a group of American bank executives and congressional leaders. At the meeting, he insists on uniting against the USSR