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While Special Envoy Saburo Kurusu got ready in Washington to argue the U.S. into letting Japan have her way in the Pacific (see p. 19), Premier General Hideki Tojo and Foreign Minister Shigenori Togo told the world that Japan meant to have her way anyhow...
Japan, said Premier Tojo, expects...
Treaty obligations shelved for the moment, verbal sword-rattling continued apace in the Japanese press. The official Domei news agency predicted that the Diet's extraordinary session on Nov. 15 would find Premier Hideki Tojo detailing a time limit for U.S.-Japanese discussions. Said the conservative Asahi: "Japan, making a great sacrifice to establish the New East Asia, must take even stronger resolutions to go straight ahead in this and other national policies, to the disregard of American obstructions." Yomiuri made much of the Reuben James sinking, doubted U.S. ability to police both oceans, termed the Atlantic Fleet...
Each morning at sunrise Japan's most important sitting-down soldier, Premier General Hideki Tojo, rides Tokyo's streets for half an hour. Policeman Ono was overcome with trepidation one morning as the General dismounted before his box and thanked him for guarding the capital's matutinal peace...
Last week General Tojo heard that parts of Tokyo were threatened with a fish shortage. To the fish market he rode. He fingered two suspicious specimens and inquired: "Are these still edible?" Then the Premier asked the fishmongers the real reason for the shortage. Lack of oil for Japan's motor-powered fishing boats, he was told. "Oil!" exclaimed General Tojo. "Why not get up earlier and work harder...