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Japan awarded its highest military decoration-the Order of the Golden Kite-to 955 officers and men for feats in the Pacific, to 3,031 more who had fought in China. The list included such ranking officers as Vice Admiral Yukichi Yashire, Rear Admirals Yukio Kato and Toshio Otake, Major Generals Chikegi Usui and Tateo Kato. The interesting thing was not that Japan had so many heroes, but that the heroes were dead when they received the Order of the Golden Kite...
...Harsh Toshio Shiratori, former political adviser to the Foreign Office, who has vocally loathed Britain and the U.S. for years...
...elimination of Mr. Matsuoka enabled Japan to pursue a foreign policy more free of the influence of Germany and Russia. .Several of Foreign Minister Matsuoka's pro-Axis appointees, including Axis Stooge Toshio Shiratori, resigned from the Foreign Office. This freedom will be most useful in the case of Russia, since it will allow Japan to worsen relations against the time when she may attack eastern Siberia...
This was a complete definition of what worried Tokyo last week, and there was no sign that Tokyo was getting anywhere with it. The advocates of physical force spoke loud & long. Blunt-faced Toshio Shiratori, potent diplomatic adviser to the Foreign Office, who rants like any Nazi about "plutocratic Jews and democrats," declared: "The greatest reason for Japan's participation in the triple alliance lies in the fact that the three signatory powers at this time of great change in the world situation have the same position, the same interests and entertain the same political views. China...
Scheduled for trial for betraying military secrets this week, Harry Thompson faced a possible 20-year prison sentence instead of the death which might be his if the nation were at war. As for Toshio Miyazaki, the State Department merely announced that it had served no representations on Japan. Playing up to their part in the elaborate diplomatic game which calls for blank official ignorance about the whole business of spies and spying, Imperial Navy officials in Tokyo professed themselves eager to help the U. S. if they could, readily admitted that their roster included a Lieutenant Commander Toshio Miyazaki...