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...capital, Nanking, where he rides between rows of guards who watch for assassins, but in Tokyo last week Wang rode beaming past 50,000 admiring people from the railroad station to his Puppet Embassy. They waved flags, they shouted "Banzai!" Wang doffed his plug...
...Emperor and Empress were greeted by Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye. With Imperial humility the Emperor bowed to the crowd. Finally Prince Konoye stepped to a microphone and. waving his arms, led all Japan, gathered from Hokkaido to Honshu at millions of radios, in the Japanese equivalent of three cheers: "Banzai! Banzai! Banzai!" Then the assembled 52,000 bowed toward the pavilion, and the absent millions bowed toward their microphones...
...conspicuous sight in Japanese streets nowadays are crowds of housewives in khaki smocks or calico aprons-uniforms of the Women's Patriotic Society (750,000 members) and of the Women's Organization for National Defence (4,500,000 members). Their activities include Banzai parties for departing soldiers, visiting military hospitals to "comfort" the wounded, taking part in anti-British rallies...
...Pontinia and Aprilia. "Ceremonies such as these require no speeches -for facts are more eloquent than words!" said the Dictator shortly, before climbing back behind the wheel of his car. Up went cheers in which the Italian peasants were joined by a delegation of Japanese university students who shrilled: "Banzai! May you live 10,000 years...
...Trafalgar means to the English, to Russians, what Waterloo means to the French. Greatest naval battle since Trafalgar, and one of the four greatest of all time,* Tsushima (1905) was the knockout blow by which Admiral Togo won the Russo-Japanese War, set all Japan in a roar of Banzai! History has written down Togo as hero of the fight, but last week a footnote to history gave the other side of the story...