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...underfed and worried Japan no relief can be seen, only years of continued hardship; no group could present any alternative. The Japanese had only Tojo's chilly comfort: "When opposing camps are exhausted, the side whose faith in victory has been shaken and whose fighting spirit has been lost will go down in defeat...
Fortnight ago, Premier General Hideki Tojo told his nation that "there is only a hair's breadth between victory and defeat," warned that Japan must pay a high price for victory: a national service law, all-out production of ships and planes, increased taxes, spiritual mobilization on the frenzied Yamato pattern exhibited at Tarawa, Makin, Attu...
...Spirit. Tojo spoke not in desperation but from knowledge of his people, their obedience, credulity, imperturbability in the face of hardship. Japan's soldiers, peasants and factory workers expect to win the war; their trump is Yamato Damashii, the "unquenchable spiritual force" of the Japanese people which must match the earthier power of the U.S.'s bigger guns, faster planes, heavier ships. They know Japan has conquered a rich empire, believe that the peoples of East Asia are united against the Western powers. Few of them seriously doubt the extravagant claims of continued victories, because they have...
...squirming little Japanese parliamentarian had brooded ever since the Cairo Conference; Germany and Japan should confer, he thought, and draft their joint war-peace plans. Last week in the Diet he popped the question to Premier General Hideki Tojo (see p. 28). Replied Tojo: such a conference would be "devoid of benefit"; Axis relations are "clear, united and warm...
...Soon the Jap organizer, who had been nicknamed Tojo, the lamplighter, dropped some flares as he circled us. Then for another three hours the planes made their runs at us and retired while Tojo kept lighting up the street lights. . . . You caught the enormity of our task force as the firing commenced again at both sides...