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...sacred Japanese Emperor leads the parade of personalities in the newest Almanac de Gunther, as the author discusses his divinity, ancestry, poetry, wealth, family and advisers. After that, among many others, come the venerable, 89-year-old Prince Saionji, last of the Genro; jingoistic Baron Kuchiro Hiranuma, who as Premier has an earthquake-and-assassination-proof house; aristocratic former Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye, who has made a "cult of languor"; Lieut.-General Seishiro Itagaki, most prominent member of the Army's radical Kwantung Clique, who conquered and now rules Manchukuo; the fabulously rich men who own the Houses...
...capital in the far west, the New Life Movement marked the day with a traditional fair, suitably modified for a China at war. The most patronized concession: a "beat the Japanese" booth where patriotic Chinese could throw balls at caricatures of such Japanese worthies as Premier Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma, his predecessor, Prince Fumimaro Konoye, Minister for War Lieut. General Seishiro Itagaki and Minister for Foreign Affairs Hachiro Arita...
Japan's rubber-stamp Diet last week heard its new Premier, Fascist-minded Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma, make some unorthodox admissions: 1) Chinese resistance was formidable; 2) in conquered territory Japanese troops controlled only cities and communications lines; 3) the Japanese Army will have to remain in China for a long time to come...
Then, for the first time since Japan began its conquest of China, the army got its own man the premiership. The Emperor gave the job to austere, fanatically patriotic, 73-year-old Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma. Recognized civilian leader of Japan's military-fascist front, since the army's uprising in February 1936 Baron Hiranuma has been president of Emperor Hirohito's Privy Council...
While in the Department of Justice the Baron, then plain Mr. Hiranuma, became notorious for harsh, even sadistic, persecution of persons harboring "dangerous thoughts," an official euphemism for any ideas critical of the existing order. In 1914 he founded the Kokuhonsha (National Foundation Society), the nucleus of the military-fascist front. In 1936 the society was disbanded because Baron Hiranuma had become president of the Privy Council, and as an adviser to the throne was considered above politics...