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...I.R.A.A., including many former political-party leaders, was impotent with dissension. The Diet was created by the Imperial Constitution, and could not be disposed of without offense to the Emperor's sacrosanct person...
...extremists set out to restore the military aristocracy, to dominate the Gov ernment, to make the sacrosanct Emperor what the brilliant former editor of the Kobe Japan Chronicle, A. Morgan Young, has called - since he left Japan in 1937 -the "Grand Mascot" of warriors rather than of monopoly capitalists...
...Ministers of War and the Navy could go over the Prime Minister's head, directly to the Emperor. The Services could prevent the forming of any Cabinet simply by refusing to appoint military ministers...
...late in the afternoon and the new Premier was in a hurry. But one matter had first to be attended to. He hastened to Yasukuni shrine, attended the deification ceremonies for 15,000 war dead newly fallen in China. He stopped, too, to pray briefly at the shrine of Emperor Meiji, founder of the Empire, and at the shrine of Admiral Togo, conqueror of the Russians...
...Cabinet. Within 36 hours General Tojo had brought his choices through the grey fog to the palace, presented them to the Emperor. Then he went to report his assumption of office to the Sun Goddess at the Grand Shrine...