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...Germany's attack on Russia, which, in spite of official denials, caught Japan as flat-footed as everybody else. Venturesome Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka, who promoted and signed both the Tripartite Pact with Germany and Italy and the Neutrality Pact with Russia, hastened to explain things to Emperor Hirohito...
...Emperor also granted an audience to another businessman-turned-politician, Masatsune Ogura, Minister for Coordination of War Economy and a far more cautious character than Yosuke Matsuoka. This might, or might not, betray a lack of confidence among the Son of Heaven's advisers in the policies of the Foreign Minister...
...after he saw the Emperor, Foreign Minister Matsuoka summoned German Ambassador Major General Eugen Ott, who was doubtless asked to explain Adolf Hitler's rather belittling reference to Yosuke Matsuoka in his proclamation of war. (Hitler: "I myself advised Japanese Foreign Minister Matsuoka that eased tension with Russia always was in hope of serving the cause of peace.") In Berlin Japanese Ambassador Lieut. General Hiroshi Oshima called on Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop for the same purpose...
...future of her most aggressive diplomat, Yosuke Matsuoka. To Foreign Minister Matsuoka, his future and Japan's are scarcely distinguishable, but it would be possible for Japan's Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye and Japan's Privy Council and, above all, Japan's well-advised Emperor Hirohito to choose a course that would leave Mr. Matsuoka with no alternative but to resign. That would be the course of conservatism, of rapprochement with the U.S., of resistance to Germany. That course, as of last week, looked as hazardous as the course of rash adventure, because the London-Washington...
Yosuke Matsuoka arrived home from Geneva in a burst of glory, still talking sweetly to the rest of the world. ("I have become convinced that we can tell the American people what we have at the bottom of our hearts.") The Emperor sent him a case of sake and a cask of fish. But temporary fame began to fade. In one of his usual quick moves he resigned from the Diet and the Seiyukai Party to work for the dissolution of all parties in the interest of "national solidarity." thus becoming in late 1933 forerunner of a movement that...