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...robes of Chinese silk (TIME, Oct. 24). Hours before his train was due in Tokyo Japanese schoolmarms excused little boys and girls from classes, washed the children's hands, stuck a clean Japanese flag into each chubby fist and let the moppets off in droves to shriek "Banzai! May you live 10,000 years...
Gathered around the furnace were Japan's leading pearl dealers. "Banzai!" they shouted. "May you live 10,000 years, oh Most Honorable Kokichi Mikimoto! Banzai! The price of pearls has risen!" The price had risen some 30%. the dealers agreed, all because Kokichi Mikimoto had shoveled 720,000 pearls into a furnace...
While thousands of throats shrieked Banzai ("May you live 10,000 years") the entire party entered State limousines, drove directly to the Royal Palace through crowds of moderate size which sometimes failed to cheer...
...daughters) received bronzed Conqueror Honjo in private audience, a rare honor for a man.* Their Majesties then jointly had the "Devil Tycoon"? to lunch. Straight from their Royal Palace he drove to an ugly alley, so narrow that his limousine could not enter. Alighting amid frenzied cries of Banzai! he squeezed down the alley to his tiny, Spartan home...
Since China's forces had withdrawn some 20 miles from Shanghai (TIME, March 14), Japan's remaining 30,000 troops had last month's battlefield to themselves. Upon it last week they proceeded to stage a sham battle. Advancing with shouts of "Banzai!" against a nonexistent Chinese foe, the Japanese captured position after position, firing their rifles and machine guns as they did so. Realism was added by the presence of hundreds of decomposing Chinese dead upon the field...