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...responsible consideration of the matter." There was every indication in Tokyo that the Government was giving responsible consideration to many matters arising out of Germany's attack on Russia, which, in spite of official denials, caught Japan as flat-footed as everybody else. Venturesome Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka, who promoted and signed both the Tripartite Pact with Germany and Italy and the Neutrality Pact with Russia, hastened to explain things to Emperor Hirohito...
...Emperor also granted an audience to another businessman-turned-politician, Masatsune Ogura, Minister for Coordination of War Economy and a far more cautious character than Yosuke Matsuoka. This might, or might not, betray a lack of confidence among the Son of Heaven's advisers in the policies of the Foreign Minister...
...after he saw the Emperor, Foreign Minister Matsuoka summoned German Ambassador Major General Eugen Ott, who was doubtless asked to explain Adolf Hitler's rather belittling reference to Yosuke Matsuoka in his proclamation of war. (Hitler: "I myself advised Japanese Foreign Minister Matsuoka that eased tension with Russia always was in hope of serving the cause of peace.") In Berlin Japanese Ambassador Lieut. General Hiroshi Oshima called on Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop for the same purpose...
...delicacy of the situation arose from its complexity, in which the matter of a U.S. threat to Vladivostok and the matter of Yosuke Matsuoka's misplaced, if not lost, face were only two of many aspects. Others...
Japan & Mr. M. On the responsible consideration given to Japan's so delicate situation hung not only the future of Japan but the future of her most aggressive diplomat, Yosuke Matsuoka. To Foreign Minister Matsuoka, his future and Japan's are scarcely distinguishable, but it would be possible for Japan's Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye and Japan's Privy Council and, above all, Japan's well-advised Emperor Hirohito to choose a course that would leave Mr. Matsuoka with no alternative but to resign. That would be the course of conservatism, of rapprochement with...