Word: manchukuo
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...Japan, the Methodists followed the lead of their presiding officer, Bishop Titus Lowe of Oregon. The report expressed friendship toward Japan. Chided Bishop Lowe: ''When you condemn American imperialism in the Far East and in the next breath compliment Japan after her recent record in Shanghai and Manchukuo, I fear your social service brains are not working. One of the rankest bits of imperialism in the world is Japan...
...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...
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...