Word: hirohito
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japan will gather this week for an Extraordinary Session-perhaps the most momentous since the Extraordinary Diet that met in the month before Pearl Harbor. A heavy brocade curtain will rise before a balcony in the dignified House of Peers. There, in lonely, myopic state, will perch the Emperor Hirohito. The honorable members, and the uniformed guards who see that representatives do not fall asleep, will bow their heads docilely as the Son of Heaven, flanked by Princes of the Blood, declares their meeting open...
Vice Admiral Kaneo Sunagawa, just back from the fronts, advanced fearfully into the outer chamber. It was 10 a.m. The glare in the eyes of the Vice Admiral grew unbearably, for His Imperial Majesty the Emperor Hirohito had generously entered. His Majesty expressed words of excruciating praise for Vice Admiral Sunagawa's victories at sea. The Vice Admiral was then admitted into the inner chamber, where he had a divine audience with Her Imperial Majesty the Empress. Their Majesties bestowed on Vice Admiral Sunagawa a crested cup and an unmentionably sacred sum of money. The Vice Admiral retired...
...Hirohito: 'As Emperor and leader of traitorous and brutal Japan during the years of her foul attacks on peaceful peoples, your time is short.' "To Tojo: 'When you unleashed your cowardly attack on Dec. 7, you started something you can't finish.' "To Yamamoto, commander of the Japanese Fleet, who predicted that he would make peace in the White House (see p. 60): 'You will be present at the peace if you are still alive. That peace will be in the White House, but the White House will not be as you en visaged...
...year, it turned out to be a good speculation. His armies conquered Hong Kong, the Philippines, Singapore, the Dutch East Indies and Burma. Never in history had one nation conquered so much so quickly. Seldom had any nation's fighting abilities been underestimated so badly. Tojo, or Emperor Hirohito, in whose name all Japanese wage holy war, might well have been the man of the year, if the explosive Japanese campaigns had not shown signs of burning...
...OWFs Elmer Davis has been directed by the State Department to take a contrary view. Last week Mr. Davis announced that the U.S. Government did not propose to attack Emperor Hirohito by radio. Said Mr. Davis: "There is every evidence to show that he has had nothing to do with the military for a long time. He is regarded as a god. Attacks against him would be resented, and would serve no useful purpose." Mr. Davis did not say whether he thinks attacks on the Japanese Emperor by Japanese are bad propaganda...