Word: hirohito
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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German correspondents in Tokyo cabled a close-up view of one of the war's rarely seen, little-known figures: Hirohito, Japan's 124th Tenno ("Heavenly King...
Early in the war, OWI passed the word around: call Hitler & Mussolini any fighting word that comes to mind-but go easy on Emperor Hirohito...
...section of official opinion in the U.S. holds that Japan's Emperor Hirohito should be spared from propaganda and other attack, preserved as the postwar ruler of defeated Japan (see p. 19). Crux of this argument: the Emperor was against war with the U.S., resisted the actions of his war lords...
...Tokyo last week, Emperor Hirohito attended the opening of the 84th session of the Japanese Diet, listened to the reading of his imperial rescript. The message praised: 1) "The warriors who represent us"; 2) "Our subjects exerting their efforts in production"; 3) "The great undertaking in East Asia. . . ." It was the Son of Heaven's strongest endorsement of his war lords. In effect, he clothed them with imperial authority, sanctioned their actions...
...their respective bailiwicks it might have been possible thus to present Hitler, Hirohito or Stalin, accompanied by the Horst Wessel song, Kimyjayo, or the Internationale. In this case, however, the apotheosis was being accorded to Frank Sinatra. The tune he was singing might well have been Lo, He Comes With Clouds Descending, but was in fact called The Music Stopped...