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...Free Man. By 1943's fall, Professor Sakimura came to certain heretical conclusions: Germany's economic position was not nearly so strong as the Nazis pretended or Japanese Ambassador Hiroshi Oshima believed. The United Nations were winning the war. Inevitably, his own country's anachronistic feudal system would give way. Japanese like himself ought to fight for their ideas, break with their Government, dissociate themselves from a wrong and losing cause...
...Playwright Curt Langenbeck had adapted the most famed of Japanese dramas, The 47 Rōnin, which was produced with considerable care and éclat. To the opening of Treue (Loyalty) went Gauleiter Giesler and other Nazi party officials to welcome the representatives of "our great ally," Japanese Ambassador Oshima, Japanese Minister Sakuma...
Most striking feature of The Big Talk was the absence of Japan's Ambassador to Germany, Lieut. General Hiroshi Oshima. Perhaps Japan wanted to keep clear of Germany's war on Russia, at least until the first big 1942 returns were in. Or perhaps Hitler thought Japan had already gone far enough and pointedly left Japan's Ambassador out of The Big Talk. As to that, the world outside Castle Fuschl would have to wait...
...Yamashita graduated from the Staff College in Tokyo. Two of his classmates were Hideki Tojo, now Japan's Premier, and Hoshira Oshima, now Japan's Ambassador to Berlin. Tojo, Yamashita and Oshima at once threw themselves into the Young Officers' clique, a fiercely burning furnace of Japanese militarism. As long as World War I lasted, these young faggots burned with a single flame: they were hot for Japan to take advantage of the war and move in on China...
...take long, after the war, for Japan to cozy up to its recent enemy, Germany. Oshima and Yamashita were dispatched to Europe-Oshima became a military attache in Berlin; Yamashita, after a short stay in Germany, went to Poland, where he worked up a first-class hate against nearby Bolshevism...