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General Hideki Tojo bowed before the Emperor, confessed his many failures. As Premier, holding most of the strategic Cabinet posts, he had bet on the wrong team in-Europe, had led his country into war. As War Minister and lately Chief of the Army Staff, he had lost Saipan, was still bogged down in China. As Munitions Minister, he had failed to achieve sufficient war production at home. Tojo resigned with his whole Cabinet...
...Japs out of the cave. Said he somewhat wistfully: "I wish we had somebody that knew enough Japanese to fetch him out." He said this in a low voice so the sergeant couldn't hear him. Another private first class observed that he didn't believe the Emperor himself knew enough Japanese to coax anybody out of that hole...
Tougher than Togo's. The reason Shimada had no one to blame this time but himself was that old Nagano was no longer in the whipping-boy post. Last February he had been kicked upstairs to the job of senior adviser to the Emperor, the kind of post that navies the world over like to hand out to failures with broad stripes. When Nagano left, Shimada took over his job as Chief of Staff, thus made himself responsible for Navy strategy and grand tactics while retaining the safer administrative duties of Navy Minister...
When Shimada was recalled from China, the Emperor gave him a special purse. He used it with scrupulous correctness to buy 70 memorial swords for his staff...
...artillery and mortar fire had cut down many a U.S. fighting man, and there was bloody fighting ahead. But the crushing logic of war was against the minions of the Emperor. Saipan was bound to fall...