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...Emperor of Japan is not a man. He is 39 years old, has six human children, weighs about 135 pounds, eats, sleeps and fans himself; but he is not a man. Hirohito, Son of the Sun Goddess, is a lot of things. He is fierce samurai battles, snowcapped volcanoes, the flowering mimosa, fat carp in mountain pools. He is exaggerated politeness, intense ambition, orchidaceous sensitivity. He is the rising sun. He is also a big navy, and a crying need for cheap rice and living space. He embraces Japan. He is Japan...
Last week Japanese reverently celebrated the 2,600th anniversary of the assumption of divine rule by Hirohito's ancestor Jimmu, first of Japan's unbroken (but, thanks to some perfectly divine concubines, occasionally knotted) string of 124 emperors. To Occidentals, the celebration looked like so much hocuspocus. This scoffing attitude was symptomatic of the blind misunderstanding of Japan's ways which last week threatened-in the opinion of some sober commentators, more immediately than Europe's troubles-to get the U. S. into...
During Japan's first invasion of Manchuria, the Japanese killed someone they thought was General Ma. They were so sure of themselves that they sent home to Emperor Hirohito what they believed to be General Ma's uniform and medals...
Last week these lines were announced as His Imperial Highness Emperor Hirohito's contribution (not eligible for a prize) to the annual Imperial Poetry Contest. Far more frankly propagandistic than Emperor Hirohito's efforts of past years, which always discreetly hid the Japanese Army under lotus leaves, branches of mimosa and the burgeoning cherry, this year's poem was released in an inopportune week -a week singularly illustrative of the famous lines on the same subject by that other imperialist, Rudyard Kipling. Only way the twain were meeting last week was on the opposite sides of angry...
...been wrong before, but Prince Konoye is a good bet to pick up where the aimless Abe Government leaves off. Premier from 1937 to 1939, he is now the most popular statesman in Japan and probably the only Japanese with enough astuteness and courage to play Mussolini to Hirohito's Vittorio Emanuele. It was he who invented the famous, mystical but so far meaningless slogan: New Order in East Asia. He may find accomplishing it not only New but Large...