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...travels to the capitals of Totalitaria, busy little Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka last week reported to an anxious Japan the things he had done and the friends he had made. On the whole the report went down well. First there was a Cabinet meeting, from which Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye was absent, as usual, with a cold. The Foreign Minister was subjected to what the Japanese press called "sincere and cautious questions" by Home Minister Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma, Guardian of Imperial Rule, and by Justice Minister Lieut. General Heisuke Yanagawa. They asked about the implications of the Russo-Japanese Neutrality...
Sick Leader. That inveterate hypochondriac, Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye, still lay abed with the "cold" he caught two weeks ago-a good deal less sick than his 100,000,000 people in featherweight houses had begun to feel. Bed was no place for the Premier at a time like this, and the influential Tokyo Asahi was only echoing the growing concern of the country when it came out and told Prince Konoye so. In the frankest piece of criticism a newspaper has directed at the Premier since he became head of the Government, Asahi said...
...Gods. While Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye, his Cabinet and other privileged persons followed the Son of Heaven into the sanctuary of his ancestral goddess, thousands of lesser Japanese made their way to Shinto shrines throughout Japan. Outside the gates of the shrine to the war dead in Tokyo, women offered white girdles to the worshippers. These girdles, stitched with red, make soldiers who wear them invulnerable. Before entering the gates each worshipper purified himself by washing out his mouth in a common pool. Before leaving, each worshipper tossed coins before the shrine. In the lesser shrines, as in the Imperial...
Stalling of the war in China gave Toyama and his henchmen a chance for a comeback. They indirectly allied themselves with Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye's drive to abolish political parties and set up a totalitarian State. By last week their operations had become considerably more open...
This winter obedient Japanese millions, reading the Government's vague phrases in their newspapers, may not know exactly what Premier Fumimaro Konoye means by the New Structure he is building in Nippon, but they know something new is going...