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...TIME has correctly persisted in recognizing Emperor Hirohito as the official head of the state religion (Shinto...
...signed a Treaty of Amity and Commerce, built the country's first trolley line, rail way and waterworks. The Japanese, after defeating Russia in 1904-05, made Korea their colony and highroad to Manchuria. They gave it modern transport, developed its mines, exploited its farms, opened Shinto shrines...
...Tokyo area where the orders of Imperial Headquarters could have been transmitted and should have been enforced most quickly. By the Japs' own admission, their planes attacked twelve Allied transports cruising near Shikoku; Third Fleet fighters shot down snoopers aplenty. A brace of kamikaze pilots heading for the Shinto heaven crashed into Ihiya Island, near Okinawa, causing U.S. casualties...
Then Prince Higashi-Kuni made pilgrimage to the famed Meiji and Yasukuni shrines. There he offered a Shinto prayer to Japan's fallen war heroes, those who "gave their lives to become the spirits which guard our Empire." There he pledged himself "to endure all hardships in safeguarding national polity . . . and reconstructing Japan...
...before the bombings, the strain on her productive system, no match for the great western powers, must have been terrific. The strain on her island people must have been more so. All nations at war secretly long for peace, and in Japan, the markers, commemorating the dead in the Shinto shrines had increased ominously in death's rich wartime harvest...