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...Japan, but against capitalism and the 'gigantic trusts' which it declared responsible for the war. . . . It demanded the creation of a 'popular government,' a formula suitable to cover very diverse things. Still more significant is the fact that the manifesto does not even mention the Mikado.. . ." Explained Okano: Communists are opposed to monarchy, but the Alliance embraces people of various viewpoints; therefore the overthrow of the Emperor was not urged...
...this sense, the war against Japan was inevitably a war against its Emperor. In this sense, the great U.S. military redeployment from West to East was aimed directly at the myth of the divine Mikado, ruling a divine nation on the warpath. Grimy U.S. soldiers and marines who were last week digging out their diehard enemy from the caverns of Okinawa and Luzon were just as surely digging out this myth from the dark corners of the Japanese mind...
...World War II, General of the Army MacArthur will have a field of immense scope for his strategic and tactical brilliance. And millions of his fellow-countrymen who know little of the art of war would be well pleased to see him take, as symbol of full surrender, the Mikado's sword...
Mohandas K. Gandhi was amused. To the tune of Tit-willow from Gilbert & Sullivan's The Mikado, Khorshed Naoroji sang him a song just published in the Times of India...
Richard Strauss, generally rated the greatest living composer, a consistent opponent of the Nazis, who nevertheless in 1940 composed and dedicated to the Mikado a piece in honor of the 2,600th anniversary of the Japanese Imperial dynasty...