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...therefore enjoyed all the blessings of citizenship. They had gone to the public schools, voted, earned a living. Some of them had friends or relatives in the U.S. armed forces. But last week these 6,000-odd U.S. Japanese were busy renouncing their citizenship to swear allegiance to Emperor Hirohito...
Even with the woman he loved, the onetime King-Emperor who had ruled over a domain on which the sun never sets could not be very happy ruling 29 islets, 661 cays and 2,387 sandspits. In public, however, he was always correct. Only in private did he say "This Elba!" and she echo "This St. Helena...
...fact was, and he knew it, that in a world where there is little demand for men whose only training is as King-Emperor, he was technologically unemployable, an obsolete man. He might have liked to be Governor General of Canada, but there was scant chance of it-not so long as straitlaced Bachelor Mackenzie King was the Dominion's Prime Minister. Australia had already received his brother Gloucester. And the British were not likely to make David's Wally Vicereine of India. Perhaps France and conspicuous unemployment were inevitable...
...mutual hate and contempt." Invasion, bombing and unconditional surrender will be followed by the outlawry, duplicity and mutual suspicion which military occupation is bound to bring. And this may lead to a nationalistic government cool to foreign Christianity and firmly behind Japan's ancient and ingrained ancestor-emperor worship...
Missionary Iglehart believes that, no matter what happens, emperor worship cannot be wiped out for decades. Thus, those who favor lynching Hirohito should think twice, because "disgrace or harm to the present emperor would probably serve merely to augment the honor of the imperial line. ... No foreigner can hope to [disentangle] the politico-religious element in Japanese life...