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Tokyo Expects. In Japan it is the Sublime Emperor, 124th descendant of the Sun Goddess, who ratifies treaties. The Japanese Parliament has no say at all. In the face of concentrated, long-standing opposition by Japanese Navymen (TIME, June 2 et seq.), grizzled Prime Minister "Shishi" ("The Lion"; Hamaguchi journeyed last week to the Imperial summer residence at Hayama and, prostrate before the "Son of Heaven," presented Japan...
...usual Prime Minister Yuko ("Shishi," "The Lion'') Hamaguchi displayed iron nerve, inflexible purpose. It was clear to him, as it certainly is clear to all Occidental experts, that Japan obtains great advantages from the Treaty, although naturally not getting all she asked in every category. Lumping her gains together it appears that while she set out to get 70% of the U. S. naval strength in battleships, cruisers, destroyers and submarines, she actually got 71.3%. Therefore the lion-hearted Prime Minister ignored all protests, bloody or otherwise, prepared to push ratification of the Treaty...
...down on all fours again to paint, "I am ashamed," and finally his signature. An obsequious Japanese clerk then took the Great Man's scroll, translated it into something which an English cable office could handle, flashed it off to Prime Minister Yuko "Shishi" (i. e. "The Lion") Hamaguchi in Tokyo...
...country's gold reserve. Decreased U. S. demand for raw silk has brought a slump to Japan's chief export industry. Last week's cotton strike, and a hint of further labor troubles, brought Japanese brokers to panic's edge. Deeply concerned was the cabinet of Prime Minister Yuko Hamaguchi. A Tokyo correspondent quoted the opinion of several cabinet members that "the present condition of the market is due to manipulation in which the political opposition was concerned...
...Japanese naval agreement, only needing the approval of the Emperor of Japan and the U. S. Congress to become effective, by which Japan accepts an approximate 67% of the British -U.S. naval strength instead of the 70% she had been demanding before Japan's recent election confirmed Prime Minister Hamaguchi in office (TIME, March 3). In detail...