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...Soviet Russia-if Adolf Hitler weakened Russia enough. By way of preparation for war, Japan sent three vessels to the U.S. to take its nationals back home. But even high Japanese Army officers were not too happy about the prospect. Commenting on Japan's present predicament, Colonel Kikujiro Okada of the War Ministry said: "We cannot just die off, smothering in an iron bucket clamped over our head, and at the same time we cannot remove the bucket; therefore there is no other way but to go forward and prepare for the worst...
When things grow tense in Japan, somebody often takes a shot at a political big shot. Five of the 18 Premiers Japan has had since World War I were assassinated; a sixth, Admiral Keisuke Okada, saved his life in the Army revolt of 1936 by hiding in a steel vault till he nearly smothered, disguising himself and mourning at his own funeral (TIME, March 9, 1936). Last week things were tense in Japan and the big shot-at was horse-toothed Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma, 75, onetime Premier and currently Vice Premier and Minister without Portfolio in the Cabinet of Prince...
...peace pipe is the briar that Japan's crop-haired Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka smokes vehemently on all occasions. As an Axis-minded statesman, Mr. Matsuoka has taken much criticism, but last week it was not his policies that drew fire. In Tokyo, Dr. Doichi Okada, head of Japan's Anti-Smoking League, publicly begged the Foreign Minister not to set an unhealthy example for young people by puffing in public, posing pipe in mouth for photographs...
Tokyo was treated last week to some-thing as exciting as though Paris had learned during the World War that Sarah Bernhardt, Cecile Sorel or Mistinguett had eloped to Germany with a French admirer of Kaiser Wilhelm. A topflight Japanese stage & screen star is Miss Yoshiki Okada, billed soon to appear in a leading Tokyo theatre. For a time she was the Viscountess Takeuchi, recently was said to have taken as her lover a Japanese Communist writer, Ryokichi Sugimoto. Last week this pair were reported out sleighing on the snow-covered island of Sakhalin, half Japanese, half Soviet. Suddenly...
Next day friends of Miss Okada mourned her as a traitress to Japan, morally dead. The Japanese Government ordered its consul at Alexandrovsk, Russian Sakhalin, to "demand full information." But over their beer in Tokyo hard-to-convince U. S. journalists, suspicious of a publicity hoax, agreed that so far as they knew the lover of Miss Okada had been not Sugimoto but a mildly radical Japanese theatrical producer, Yoshimasa Yoshida. Sure enough, part of their suspicion was confirmed. Japanese dispatches from Sakhalin declared that the lover in the case was indeed Yoshida but still insisted that he and Miss...