Word: yamashita
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...days. By special dispensation of the Son of the Sun, he could take a bite of sweetmeats, and he was allowed enough extra sake to make the New Order race through his tight little veins. He could stand in the open places and shout banzai for General Yamashita until he was froggy. He could go to the plaza by the moat and watch, with a tingle in his buttocks, as The Emperor himself rode out on his charger White Snow, showing his unbearably beautiful self to the bowing thousands. He could meander into Hibiya Park and listen to the public...
...General Eugen Ott, German Ambassador to Tokyo. But he probably would not know why this foreigner's tone was so cordial, his eye so gleamy, his smile so quick. He would not know why General Ott was so warm whenever he mentioned the name of Lieut. General Tomoyuki Yamashita, the conqueror of Singapore, the hero of this day of days...
...Tool. The reason was this: General Yamashita, perhaps more than any other Japanese general, represents the extreme pro-German element in Japan. That he should have been the one to take Singapore was cause for special satisfaction to Eugen Ott. This event-considering the showing of the unhappy Italians-marked the first great milestone of Axis collaboration. It promised much for the future, not only of Japan, but of Germany as well...
...Pupils. German-Japanese military relations began in the year that Tomoyuki Yamashita was born, 1885. The Japanese, when they first opened themselves to the world, had modeled their fighting forces on the French. But France's humiliation in the Franco-Prussian War eventually turned the Japanese genius for emulation toward Germany. In 1885 a student of Marshal von Moltke, Major Meckel, went to Japan with a military mission to teach the sword swingers the smell of powder...
Prussian of the East. Tomoyuki Yamashita's exposure to Germanics came early. His course of studies at the Imperial Military Staff College was interrupted shortly before World War I by an order to go to Germany and have a look around. Kaiser Wilhelm, then in his finest military feather and almost ready for war, had done quite a little chanticleering about the then fashionable Yellow Peril, but there were many in Berlin who regarded London as the real root of all evil. Among them was a young philosopher named Karl Haushofer (now Adolf Hitler's theorist on geopolitics...