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...descendant of Manchu Lords who marched from Manchuria to conquer China three centuries ago. Today he is a Japanese puppet but he also rules the land of his Manchu forefathers. The population of Manchukuo. which is 95% Chinese, is being taught to venerate His Imperial Majesty Kang Te. Last week under Japanese officers the 95% Chinese troops of his Manchurian Army were the sturdy vassals of Empire who fought the Mongol vassals of the Soviets. Inner Mongolia is rapidly passing from Chinese to Japanese control and, if its people have a spokesman, he is bland, stocky Prince Te who goes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EASTERN ASIA: Soviets v. Empires | 2/24/1936 | See Source »

Thus His Majesty the Emperor Kang Te of Manchukuo is happy in holding the thought that he was not set up by Japan as a puppet, but restored by loyal Chinese to a throne in the realm of his Manchu forefathers-a happy thought flatly contradicted by the facts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Imperialist Piece | 1/20/1936 | See Source »

...Life noted that the present Japanese Emperor is said to have a homely knowledge of biology, remarked that His Majesty might have achieved more as a scientist than he has as an Emperor. Mentioning that Emperor Hirohito of Japan has little real power, New Life then mentioned Emperor Kang Te of Manchukuo as "the puppet of a puppet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: He's the Top! | 7/22/1935 | See Source »

...especially honored guest of Japan's Divine Emperor bespectacled young Son-of-Heaven Hirohito With 15 days of such pomp as even the Orient has seldom seen, Japan was giving a $1,000,000 coming-out party for her shy puppet Emperor of Manchukuo His Majesty Kang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Orchid Party | 4/15/1935 | See Source »

...simply must take seriously a crowned head in whose honor she deployed last week the Japanese combined fleets of more than 70 potent battle craft, each blazing away the 21-gun salute of an Emperor. This supreme honor Japan paid to a foreigner for the first time when Emperor Kang Te, in his babyhood the last Manchu ruler of China, approached Japan for the first time in his life on the Japanese Emperor's own flagship the Hiyei, his deeply sculptured features impassive beneath his one-star helmet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Orchid Party | 4/15/1935 | See Source »

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