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Changchun was sure that Manchukuo's real ruler, not the puppet Henry Pu Yi "Last of the Manchus" but Field Marshal Nobuyoshi Muto, was already dead. Probably he was. Certainly he died "of jaundice with complications" (according to the Japanese War Office) before the imperial fruit arrived. In double-quick time Emperor Hirohito created the dead marshal posthumously a baron and named as his successor another member of the super-militaristic Satsuma faction which dominates the Japanese Army, grizzled old General Takashi Hishikari of the Supreme War Council...
Died. Field Marshal Nobuyoshi Muto, 63, commander of the Japanese army in Manchuria, dictator of Manchukuo; of jaundice; in Changchun, Manchuria...
...extent of Japanese operations in Chinese territory are being left entirely to the discretion of Field Marshal Nobuyoshi Muto as commander of the Japanese forces in the field. . . . Continued Chinese counter-attacks are causing the Kwantung Army to lose patience." Field Marshal Nobuyoshi Muto lost no time in making a characteristic statement from his headquarters at Changchun: "If the Chinese abandon their challenging attitude and withdraw . . . the Japanese will immediately return to the Great Wall and devote their energies to maintenance of peace . . . but if the Chinese continue their provocations, the Japanese will be compelled to continue the present . . . operations...
...order thus to invade territory which even Japan calls "China" without quibbling would come from the Tokumei Zenken Taishi, the "Emperor's Private Ambassador" in Manchukuo, His Excellency General Nobuyoshi Muto, bland, august and grim. In a most ominous proclamation this week, the Tokumei Zenken Taishi declared: "Should the Chinese undertake operations against our troops [as Chinese had already done] the hostilities may inevitably spread to North China, responsibility for which must be borne by the Chinese authorities...
...answer to this, the day General Nobuyoshi Muto arrived in Mukden last week to take over his duties as Japanese Commander-in-Chief and special ambassador to Manchoukuo, Chinese guerrillas staged a desperate anti-Japanese raid. Machine guns and tanks banged away all night. The raiders succeeded in setting fire to the great Mukden arsenal three times and destroyed several planes at the airport. With the dawn they vanished. Japanese bombers zoomed off in pursuit...