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Japan groped for a way to meet total disaster. In a "personal message," broadcast by Radio Tokyo, Emperor Hirohito told his people that they faced a crisis "unprecedented in scope in our national history...
...through a five-hour emergency session of his Cabinet. The same day he talked long and earnestly with flinty General Jiro Minami, boss of the ultra-totalitarian Political Association of Great Japan. Then he doddered on across the moat of the partly burned Palace to bow low before Emperor Hirohito and make a respectful report. At the Meiji and Yasakuni shrines he prayed for the destruction of his country's enemies. Finally, with the Emperor looking on, he stood before an extraordinary session of the Diet and declared...
Ginza Goes. Actually Emperor Hirohito's property was only touched-this time. The Ginza, Tokyo's retail thoroughfare (once called "the busiest, noisiest, unhandsomest and most flamboyant of metropolitan streets"), was reported a mass of flames. Tokyo Week has cost the U.S. 31 Superfortresses or $18,600,000 in equipment and something for which there was no price-the lives of about 350 men. Since the B-29 attacks began, six months ago, the U.S. had lost 74 Superfortresses, carrying some 800 airmen. Japan had lost more than one-fifth of its capital...
...Shinto mind was strong for a finish fight, time and inevitable history were stronger still. Ancient Egypt, said Elie Faure, died of her desire for immortality. In the 20th Century world, two of whose greatest powers were leagued in overwhelming military force against him, the crucial question facing Hirohito, as the divine symbol of an immortal dynasty, was: how long can an anachronism last...
...When TIME put Hirohito on its cover in 1932, the Japanese made the following request: "Let copies of the present issue lie face upward on all tables; let no object be placed upon the likeness of the Emperor...