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...given Japan's hotheads in the Non-Aggression Pact by signing a new $14,000,000 barter agreement (last year's Russo-Japanese trade was less than $2,000,000). Also Puppet Ruler Wang Chingwei of Nanking left for Tokyo to be received in splendor by Emperor Hirohito. His visit was said to be connected with the attempted formation of a "peace bloc" including Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia and Nanking which would assure them all of co-prosperity, end Russia's assistance to Free China. It was hoped that the last move would throw that land into...
During the week German Ambassador Major General Eugen Ott and Italian Ambassador Mario Indelli both called on Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka. Mr. Matsuoka conferred with his chiefs of Military and Naval Affairs, while Emperor Hirohito received War Minister Eiki Tojo. A Government spokesman denied, as he must, a report that Ambassador Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura was seeking a neutrality pact in Washington...
...Cabinet accepted the pact; the Privy Council, sitting in the presence of the Son of Heaven, approved it unanimously. Next evening Emperor Hirohito sanctioned it. The press hinted broadly that Mr. Matsuoka should next go to the U.S., and perhaps to Great Britain, to try to win Greater East Asia by negotiation...
Japan's grave-faced Emperor Hirohito last week wrapped himself in a silken robe embroidered with the sacred Paulownia blossom and stepped into the innermost sanctuary of the Imperial Palace to worship his mythological ancestress, the Sun Goddess, celebrating the ascension to the throne 2,601 years ago of his lineal ancestor, the great Emperor Jimmu. Aside from the fact, of no great importance, that there is no historical evidence that Jimmu ever existed, there was a striking difference between the two ceremonies 2.601 years apart: whereas Jimmu had given thanks to the Sun Goddess after his conquest...
...have given Mitsuru Toyama greatest satisfaction of all last week was the convocation of the Diet. Parliamentary forms have always been the cardinal anathema to the secret societies. Last week's convocation indicated that the forms were very nearly dead. In the pompous Diet building in Tokyo, Emperor Hirohito made a one-minute speech to the members, who were as stray and divided as sheep. They had dissolved their political parties and their lobbying machines. They had no aims, no organization, no hope. Their first and only act was to adjourn until January 20. Then, in a mockery...