Word: asahi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hard Lines. Tokyo reports bore down heavily on U.S. home-front difficulties, relating that food distribution had been taken over by "gangsters whose experience in the Prohibition days is proving of great value." Takamoto Hosokawa, onetime New York correspondent for the newspaper Asahi, looked hopefully to U.S. political turmoil next year: "In the event Roosevelt is eliminated," said he, "there will be an estrangement in relations with England, and a darkening state will develop internally...
Nakano studied in Europe and the U.S., spoke precise English, edited the rich and influential Tokyo Asahi, wrote pamphlets. Like many another of Japan's soured intellectuals, he applied his knowledge and talents to the advocacy of aggression. In 1936 he formed the Tohokai (Society of the East), a fascist party on a modified European pattern...
Treaty obligations shelved for the moment, verbal sword-rattling continued apace in the Japanese press. The official Domei news agency predicted that the Diet's extraordinary session on Nov. 15 would find Premier Hideki Tojo detailing a time limit for U.S.-Japanese discussions. Said the conservative Asahi: "Japan, making a great sacrifice to establish the New East Asia, must take even stronger resolutions to go straight ahead in this and other national policies, to the disregard of American obstructions." Yomiuri made much of the Reuben James sinking, doubted U.S. ability to police both oceans, termed the Atlantic Fleet...
...Japan, which has recently aped Western anti-Semitism as avidly as it imitates Western bicycles and beer, the newspaper Asahi shrilled: "Jews re-elected Roosevelt for a third term. Jews coaxed Churchill to war against Germany. Jews are also backing Stalin. . . . Jews want bases in the Atlantic and Pacific, at Burma, and bases in China from which to bomb Japan...
Still in Washington are Kurt Sell of Germany's D.N.B.; Masuo Kato and Clarke Kawakami of Japan's Domei; Kenji Kauno of the Tokyo and Osaka Asahi Shimbun. The little man who is no longer there is Count Leone Fumasoni-Biondi of Italy's Stefani Agency, stationed in Washington since 1932-a dark, soft-mannered gentleman whose ancestors have been Vatican officials for four centuries, whose uncle, Cardinal Fumasoni-Biondi, once Apostolic Delegate to the U.S., now holds the Vatican's Office for the Propagation of the Faith. The Count, in fact, is no Fascist...