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...There were big scattered clouds of smoke and flame, some terrific block-long fires. One of the boys said he got an aircraft carrier in construction, that it rolled over right on the ways. Other planes were hitting Kobe, Yokohama and Osaka. They had orders not to bomb the Emperor's palace. Afterwards, from intelligence reports, we heard that more people were killed because of suffocation and inadequate dugouts than by flame or bombs...
...Solidarity. The national slogan of Japan, proclaimed last year, at the time of the first Solomons battle, is "A Hundred Year War." The Japanese people unquestioningly accept this prospect of incessant struggle to hold what they have won. They are solidly behind the Emperor and Premier Hideki Tojo, a strong, able and extremely popular man who is a powerful symbol of Japanese unity. Within the country, there is no opposition worthy of the name: the Allies must rely solely on their military power to crush the military power of Japan...
...easily be mistaken for Tojo, the Dictator: he is Premier, War Minister, Home Minister, production chief. Tojo himself halfheartedly dispelled this interpretation when he explained: "I am not speaking of absolute dictatorship but I would like to make this clear: I possess power as Premier by order of the Emperor, and at present I am the leader of the nation. The responsibility is an important one in every way in the glorious light of the foundation of the empire." Another explanation: Tojo exercised his powers on behalf of the Japanese military, particularly the potent Kwantung Army clique which originally...
Last week, after a 26-day court martial, the piratical Pir of Pagaro was shot for "abetting, conspiring and preparing to wage war against the King-Emperor...
...bull-necked southern samurai Saigo, whose revolt in 1866 against the Shogun unified the Japanese clans under the Emperor for the first time in centuries. He later revolted against his Emperor and died the death of an ancient Roman...