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...Emperor's sake...
Died. Yoshimichi Hara, 76, close confidant of Japan's Emperor, president of Japan's Privy Council since 1938 ; in Japan. On the morning of his death, Hara was sent twelve bottles of wine by Hirohito-the customary gift of the throne to important public servants who are beyond recovery...
...cherry-lipped little man who had steered Japan's Navy through its worst defeats, was sacked again. Already out of the Cabinet (Navy Minister), he was dropped from his No. 2 job: Chief of Naval Staff. His successor: Admiral Koshiro Oikawa, wealthy aristocrat and former mentor of the Emperor...
...marines on Saipan, the suicide of Japanese soldiers in the last days of the battle for the island, was an old story. But there were 20,000 civilians on the island, too, and many of them elected to die for the Emperor, or perhaps to escape a conqueror represented by Jap propaganda as hideously brutal. In this dispatch, TIME Correspondent Robert Sherrod describes the gruesome deeds, incomprehensible to the occidental mind, which followed the U.S. victory...
Fewer Kicks. On the Emperor's order, Yonai shared with Koiso the responsibility for organizing the new Cabinet. One result: the Navy may now hope to be kicked around less by the bossy Army. Yonai could always cite his record in the Hiranuma government. He resisted the formation of the Axis at that time, postponed it a year by insisting: "The Japanese Navy belongs to the Emperor; it is not for hire, by Hitler or anyone else...