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...they feel moral guilt for their aggression? A. In general, no. How the minority of unreconstructed militarists justify Japanese aggression to themselves can only be guessed - they are damn care ful right now to keep their mouths shut. At the opposite extreme the ardent peace advocates (like Kagawa) of course feel that the militarists are guilty. The great majority of Japs, including Premier Shidehara, believe in peace as a policy. But they still re gard Japan as the aggrieved party in the events leading up to the China war. They are not conscious of having adopted a national policy...
Army and Navy - permanently. Not just for now, but permanently." Kagawa's words were not calculated, but spontaneous, ringing with conviction...
What had the violence of war and bitterness of defeat done to the faith of Toyohiko Kagawa, one of the most famed of Oriental Christian leaders? Last week in Tokyo TIME'S Chief Pacific Correspondent Manfred Gottfried talked at length with Kagawa, founder of Japan's Kingdom of God movement, biographer of Christ, and militant pacifist. War has not shaken Kagawa's faith; he is still a Christian. He is also still a patriotic Jap. Gottfried's report...
...Kagawa is a small man with a ready smile, a forthright, friendly personality, and clothes as shabby as most Japanese. I had been told he was more likely than any to speak the truth about Japanese politics. This has been a police state, but his answers, in his own emphatic brand of English, were without hesitation or circumlocution...
Plainly he believed and rejoiced. The Japanese feel that the Emperor's peace making is a major revolution like that of 1869. Kagawa explained: "Japan is like Sweden, which was once a very war like nation. Gustavus Adolphus fought many battles, sometimes winning, sometimes losing, but in the end Sweden found that...