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Unlike Japan's prewar popular songs, which were languidly minor key and stickily sentimental, Song of the Apple was as sprightly as a hit from a U.S. college musical. It was written for Japan's first postwar movie, Soyokaze (Gentle Breeze), by Hachiro Sato and Tadashi Manjome, the Rodgers & Hammerstein of Japan's Tin Pan Alley. Lyricist Sato, a paunchy little Jap with a luxuriant ebony mustache, is Japan's Edgar Guest, turns out 50 homey verses a month for newspapers and radio. He wrote Song of the Apple before breakfast one morning in bed, after...
...frontal attack; but deviously, jesuitically, with that unsubtle subtlety which is so peculiarly Japanese. Actually there were two indirect declarations of war: In Tokyo, War Minister General Shunroku Hata told his staff: "We should not miss the present opportunity or we shall be blamed by posterity." And Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita, in a radio speech, defined the opportunity as a chance to enforce what Tokyo papers called an "Asiatic Monroe Doctrine": henceforth Japan would not meddle outside Asia, would tolerate no outside meddling inside Asia...
...Axis Powers intended to concentrate on France and Great Britain. But the small nations knew that this was only a respite. The Balkans, the Near East, Africa were ripe for what Japan's Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita recently called the imminent "world liquidation," the coming triumph of the Havenots...
...thick as haggis. He is besides generally considered the most reliable foreign correspondent in Japan. Last week he cabled home an extraordinary dispatch. His subject was Japanese alertness with regard to The Netherlands East Indies. He concluded the cable with the following words, which he said Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita had probably sent to Japanese envoys everywhere, had certainly addressed to the Foreign Office staff in Tokyo...
...laconic sentence the German Ambassador to Japan, Major General Eugen Ott, last week set a temporary limit to German war aims and gave Japanese jingoes an encouraging pinch in the backside. The German Government, General Ott told Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita, "is not interested in the problem of The Netherlands Indies...