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Bespectacled Emperor Hirohito, the earnest young Son of Heaven, had enough resignations to read last week to give His Majesty eyestrain - 500 in all. His personal military aide-de-camp, famed General Shigeru Honjo, who commanded the Japanese Kwantung Army which swarmed up to seize Manchuria in 1931, resigned last week. So did six lieutenant generals, five major generals, five corps commanders, bevies of War Ministry bureau chiefs and slews of Japanese officers of all the higher ranks.* Thus the Army continued its "expiation" for the Army assassinations of Japanese liberal statesmen (TIME, March 16). But for every...
...Japanese Ambassador to the U. S., Austria, Russia, four times Japan's Foreign Minister; of pneumonia; in Tokyo. He was recalled from retirement, put in charge of the Japanese Foreign Office for the last time in 1932, superintended Japan's withdrawal from the League, its seizure of Manchuria...
Author Smith writes with lucid detachment of the formal yet vividly human behavior of his Japanese, the confusion in the minds of the young generation about their duties, their chances in life. The extremes of poverty and industrialism in Tokyo, the meaningless political suicides, the continual troop movements toward Manchuria, are keenly described. Despite several soft episodes and what will seem to many readers an over-facile ending, the novel has the steady strength of an almost reportorial reality...
...that part of what was once China in which Japan in 1932 set up as her puppet the onetime Emperor of China, whose right to a Throne is entirely legitimate. This young man. famed as "Mr. Henry Pu Yi," is the 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...
...only natural, then, that when trouble occurred in Manchuria he should follow developments with great attention, and wonder whether he was not destined to play some part in an attempt to improve the condition of his ancestral Provinces. Emissaries of the Separatist movement called upon him at Tientsin and urged him to proceed to Manchuria. And at last he felt that if he was ever to go. he must do so forthwith, or he might find it impossible to leave...