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...fact, no longer Singapore. Imperial Headquarters, with a go-ahead from the Emperor, had renamed the island, its harbor and its city Shonan. Sho was from Showa, which designates the enlightened era of Hirohito. Nan means south. Singapore was now Light of the South...
...Showa is the name which Hirohito chose to typify his reign: it means Radiant Peace. Last week's celebration, coming at a time distinctly wanting in peace, gave Japan's men of influence occasion to consider the Japanese Empire carefully. They knew it as a sum total of many factors: a set of islands where 70,000,000 people live almost literally elbow to elbow; a low standard of living; the third biggest Navy in the world; a ragged but dogged Army (1,125,000 men in the field, 6,000,000 trained, partly trained and untrained eligibles...
...morning of Sept. 27, 1940 A.D., which corresponds to the 18th year of the Fascist Era and the 15th year of Showa (the reign of Japan's Emperor Hirohito), dawned clear and quiet in Berlin. There had been no air raid the night before and His Excellency Señor Don Ramón Serrano Suñer, Spain's Minister of Government and Falangist Party Leader, had had a good night's sleep. Don Ramón, who had been a visitor in Berlin for nearly three weeks, had, as usual, very little...
Tokyo was highly impatient to have Nanking captured last week on a mystic date particularly gratifying to the Son of Heaven, namely the 12th Day of the 12th Month of the 12th Year of His Imperial Majesty's reign which is known as Showa or "Light and Peace." The ancient Ming walls of Nanking, 40 ft. high and 30 ft. thick, stoutly defended last week, made it impossible to do more on 12-12-12 than breach the walls at two places, hoist the Japanese flag prematurely...
...nebulous promises by the new Cabinet to make the Emperor and his prerogatives utterly supreme. Finally the assassins, like the new Cabinet, sought "to assure clarification of the national policy, expansion of national defense armaments and stabilization of the peoples-in a word, to bring about the so-called Showa Restoration" under which the Japanese Empire is to grow until it includes all Eastern Asia...