Word: hirohito
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Imperial Throne has had its ups and its downs. At present the position of the Son of the Sun is at highest noon. Richer than all the Caesars, robed in 2,000 years of resplendent (if slightly manipulated) tradition, worshiped as a God by 72,000,000 emotional people, Hirohito is the earth's rarest vessel of authority...
...have his way, it looked as if Cabinets might change no more in Tokyo, and the Premiership (or at least the powerful military shadow behind it) might become permanent-hereditary, like the Shogunate and like the Throne. The only man who ever dared say no point-blank to Emperor Hirohito happens to be Fumimaro Konoye. He refused the Imperial Command to form a Cabinet...
...service: that the alleged necessity for the increase augured ill for the Army's chances to get swarms of volunteers. No voice raised in Congress for conscription had the sting and vim which some anonymous satirist achieved last week in a mock petition-to Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Emperor Hirohito-which was circulated in New York...
...almost a demigod. Prince Konoye is one of a handful who can come & go at the Imperial Household at will, and can sprawl in a chair before the Emperor. He is said to be the only man in Japan who has said no, pointblank, to Hirohito. He has been President of the House of Peers (1933-37) and Premier (1937-39). Imperial consorts and regents are picked from his family. Not even the Army dares question the authority of such a man. He has long been talked of as the only possible potential dictator in Japan...
...five occupied northern provinces, the Chinese conceding them. But if the war drags on-for six months, a year, two-Japan may slip off the rope to the end of which she has so nearly come. If that happens, if Japan's military economy collapses, then all Hirohito's horses and all of his men will not put Japan back together again...