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...Japanese soldier's usefulness to the Emperor is not ended when he is killed. According to the nationalistic Nipponese religious teachings, soldiers slain in battle become minor deities and go right on fighting the enemy in gremlinesque fashion. They foul up his radio equipment, make his detachments fire at each other, worry and scare his troops to the point of suicide...
...surprised at the sight of the birds sweeping up from the horizon. For 22 successive days the birds had come, scattering destruction around his coral fortress. But these were new birds, smaller, wheeling towards him in greater swarms, coming down on him in screaming dives. Before the Emperor's little man burrowed frantically into his coconut and concrete pillbox he would comprehend that the enemy was moving into his Marshall Islands domain for the kill...
Submarines, operating in the China Sea, hacked at the lifelines which carried coking coal from Indo-China, oil from the East Indies, materials which the Emperor's war machine must have or stall. Washington announced this week that 14 more Jap ships, including three transports, had fallen victim to the raiders, bringing the submarine score against Jap ships to 422 definitely destroyed...
This concentration of effort touches the Imperial Household. Emperor Hirohito works closely with his service chiefs (TIME, Jan. 24); Empress Nagako comforts wounded soldiers (see cut), indulges in social work...
...Tenshi-Sami, the most influential living poet (better known as Hirohito, Emperor of Japan), had "a very slight cold." An outdoor poetry party was called off until he felt better...