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Last week, at the International War Crimes trial in Tokyo, U.S. Chief Prosecutor Joseph B. Keenan asked onetime Imperial Adviser Marquis Koicho Kido: "Is it not a fact that from the beginning to the end of your political career, you consistently opposed any move by the Emperor to bring about law and order?" Marquis Kido nodded sublimely. "Yes," he answered through an interpreter. But his Western judges seemed to misunderstand. He explained that he had meant: "Yes, it is not a fact...
...Marquis Koichi Kido, Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal and Emperor Hirohito's closest adviser. Also waiting at his villa, he said: "I mean only to read books in my leisure. I have nothing else in my mind...
...Premier and his ministers now held only shadow authority. And the Emperor seemed to be completely in the hands of the war lords. For the war lords hold the three key posts at court: Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal (Marquis Kido, military puppet); Grand Chamberlain to the Emperor (Admiral Hisanori Fujita); and Imperial Household Minister (former Finance Minister Ishiwata, long a military stooge). They decide who is to have access to the Emperor, what he shall do, what documents he shall approve by affixing his seal...
...place in it. The westernized elder statesmen and their successors-men like Prince Konoye and Baron Hiranuma-were pushed into the background by swashbuckling generals and admirals, like Kenji Doihara, Hideki Tojo, Isozoku Yamamoto. Hirohito's most intimate counselors in the Imperial Household, nobles like the Marquis Kido, Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal, and ex-Grand Chamberlain Kantaro Suzuki (now Premier), were denounced by chauvinistic young officers as bad influences around the throne. Some of them were murdered in the bloody mutiny...
Keen little Marquis Kido has long been called "a sharp pocketknife" in the waistcoat of Prince Konoye. With great speed, the Marquis whittled for Konoye a wooden sword of authority-by the entirely unprecedented step of summoning an advisory conference including six former Premiers (including Prince Konoye himself, who held the office in 1937-39). All of them, including Konoye, wanted Konoye. Kido consulted with Elder Statesman Saionji, then reported to the Emperor. Within 24 hours of Yonai's resignation, the Emperor commanded Prince Konoye to form a Cabinet...