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Inside, the Japanese soldier is as tangled as the wires behind a telephone switchboard. From birth he has been taught the glory of dying for the Emperor. He knows what the manual says: "To die participating in the supreme holy enterprise of mankind (war) must be the greatest glory and the height of exaltation." Knowledge that he may die, that he may never go back to the gardens, the chrysanthemums, the neatness, the singing, the clean raw fish and warmed-up sake that are home, makes him in the field something quite different from what he was in peacetime Japan...
Congratulations from Emperor Hirohito fix upon their recipient an incredible joy; but also a certain uneasiness. This is because they not only bestow praise; they also adjure the congratulatee to continue the good work-or else...
...post of Commander in Chief of Home Defense, Premier Tojo, mindful of the Imperial prestige, appointed a relative of the Emperor, General Prince Naruhiko Higashi Kuni, 54. In 1937 Prince Higashi Kuni, who must worry about Japan's highly combustible cities, commanded Japanese troops at the capture, rape and massacre of Nanking...
...Emperor Hirohito will be expelled by Britain as Knight of the Garter, lose his honorary field marshalship in the British Army...
Just to proceed on a victory campaign won't do that. The basic causes of this war, as of the last war, lie a good deal deeper than the evil genius of Hitler, or the Kaiser, or the Emperor of Japan. It is pretty well accepted that the last war was rooted in imperialism, in the inability of great industrial states to satisfy their productive capacity in any other way but expansion. Britain and France won the control of world economic opportunity. The natural industrial unit of Germany was blocked from it, and Europe was split up in such...