Word: manchukuo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that the grey-bearded diplomats have momentarily ceased picking on Japan, Mr. Rea, Counsellor to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government of Manchukuo, has come forward with a virulently partisan volume defending not only the establishment of the independent state, but also the entire policy of Japan in the Far East...
Barking orders to police cars by radio as he tears around Tokyo in his "Police Station On Wheels," slim, high-strung Chief of Police Shohei Fujinuma looks the picture of a genial, super-progressive 20th Century Japanese. One day last week the visiting puppet Emperor of Manchukuo, whose State junket to Tokyo has cost Japan $1,000,000 (TIME, April 15), departed laden with $150,000 worth of gifts, observing with Chinese dryness, "I should like to repeat this visit soon." Next morning Police Chief Fujinuma called in Japanese reporters, publicly sighed short pants of relief and gave them their...
...Heaven himself went down to greet the onetime occupant of China's Dragon Throne. Correspondents, kept back with the Tokyo populace to a distance of one block on either side of the imperial route, spitefully cabled that they could not be sure they had seen the Emperor of Manchukuo, hinted that a double might have been used to prevent his assassination...
Since an orchid is the puppet Emperor's official flower, his Legation in Tokyo was decked with 750 orchids. Wherever he appeared Japanese schoolchildren, drilled for weeks in a Hymn to Manchukuo, shrilled it. In Tokyo he was quartered in Akasaka Palace, a replica of the Trianon Palace at Versailles and in 1922 the Tokyo residence of Edward of Wales. There Boss Endo suddenly popped up to announce: "While Emperor Rang Te is here no political matters will be discussed. None whatever. The Manchukuan Constitution effectively keeps the Manchukuo Court out of politics...
Later the two Emperors, both earnest young men in tortoise-shell spectacles, hung around each other's necks the highest orders of their respective realms. Amid the festivities it was officially announced that in Manchukuo today "only about 60,000 bandits are active," a statistic considered to reveal, in the circumstances, nothing less than the triumph of Law & Order...