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...Japanese Premier who was able by an amazing fluke to attend his own solemn Buddhist funeral and admire the hundreds of wreaths prominent persons had sent to be piled around his coffin was Admiral Keisuke Okada (TIME, March 9). Japanese Army youngsters thought they were killing Premier Okada when they were actually killing his brother-in-law, a Japanese Samurai who bravely pretended to be the Premier...
...Samurai brother-in-law's sacrifice was in one respect vain. Admiral Okada, after his spectacular "resurrection," found it impossible to remain Premier because of pressure from the middle-aged Japanese Radical-Militarists whose young Army assassins so narrowly failed to kill him. Admiral Okada last week had retired from office into deepest political oblivion-his career assassinated by weapons more subtle than the bullets which slew his brother...
...Japanese Navy went so far as to land marines in Tokyo and throw them in a protective cordon about the residence of Mr. Keisuke Okada, not because he rated this attention as Premier of Japan but because the Navy considers him one of its own as a retired Japanese Admiral...
...Premier Okada, who by a miracle also escaped assassination by soldiers, continued to hold office ad interim last week while search was conducted for a new Premier & Cabinet. In Japan this is anything but a straightforward process. A subject is commissioned by the Son of Heaven to form a Cabinet, but he cannot do so and become Premier unless he successfully supplicates an Army officer to deign to act as War Minister and a Navy officer to deign to become Naval Minister in his Cabinet...
Significantly the need for a "next Premier," which arose when Premier Okada was believed to be dead, survived his reappearance from among the scullery maids. The great Army, Navy and Air Force leaders, who frankly despise Japanese politicians and businessmen, assumed that a new Cabinet is indicated-with themselves more strongly represented than ever before. Everyone else assumed that a new Cabinet is indicated. Any notion that Premier Okada. having barely escaped assassination, should superintend the prosecution, conviction and execution of the clean young Boys was far from Japanese thoughts...