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...Frank Kluckhohn of the New York Times and Hugh Baillie of United Press (see PRESS). He asked them some questions, wished them well, and answered their own questions in writing. If he was making propaganda, he did it gracefully. He said that Tojo had abused the imperial war rescript in the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor; he hoped that Japan would become a democratic constitutional monarchy somewhat like Britain's (Japan has had a constitution of sorts since...
...Shock of Defeat. Never was a nation so ill-prepared for defeat. A Domei broadcast admitted that the Emperor's rescript came as a shock to a people who had been cut off from true military and political news of the outside world. Official statements and Tokyo broadcasts foreshadowed some of the Jap attitudes with which MacArthur must deal...
Self-Reproach. Next day Hirohito broadcast an Imperial Rescript to his nation: "Despite the best that has been done by everyone . . . the war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan's advantage. . . . Moreover, the enemy has begun to employ a new and most cruel bomb. . . . We have resolved to pave the way for a grand peace for all the generations to come by enduring the unendurable and suffering the insufferable...
...donned the ritualistic orange raiment of his forebears. From Tokyo he rode in a crimson carriage to the old capital at Kyoto. There, in a confident, resonant voice, he read his imperial Rescript, announcing his ascension. Alone, save for two attendants, he appeared, once before midnight and once after, at the shrine of his ancestress the Sun Goddess and offered her a sacrifice of holy rice...
...second school of thought abruptly dismisses the idea that the Emperor can ever be used to further democracy in Japan. Even a divine Rescript cannot bridge the gulf that separates western political liberalism from Shinto totalitarianism...