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Asahi, Mainichi and Yomiuri Hochi, the three big Tokyo dailies, all touted the leftward trend. Former militarist editors, now wearing pinkish hues, might privately admit they were hypocrites, but they made a great show of turning coats publicly. General MacArthur's headquarters had summoned the editors last December, the day before the Communists announced their platform, and warned them that they must be fair to new parties. Some editors said they took the warning as a plug for the Communists. And behind their unfamiliar attitude was a feeling that, as an Asahi editor put it, "the new thing...
MacArthur's purge of officialdom stirred most Japanese more than Hirohito's scuttling of his divinity. The new parties and the press, consistently more liberal than the Government, gleefully belabored Shidehara's "do-nothing" administration. Cried Tokyo's influential Yomiuri Hochi: "The pursuit of those responsible for the war will soon be made by the people themselves ... up to the Emperor himself if they continue to cling to their positions without any thought of repentance...
...seemed that the Son of Heaven had stepped down to a very earthy earth. The photograph was especially painful, for it showed MacArthur, in informal attire, towering over the fussily dressed Emperor (whom no mortal is supposed to behold from above). The Ministry suppressed editions of Asahi, Mainichi and Yomiuri Hochi, which car ried both the picture and reports of the meeting. MacArthur sternly ordered the banned papers released to the public...
...week's end, Yomiuri Hochi, without using the dread word surrender, made their predicament still clearer to the Japanese people...
Then the Tokyo newspaper Yomiuri Hochi, in a historic editorial, prepared the minds of the Japanese people for the surrender news: "There is an ebb and a flow in the tides of the affairs of every nation. Statesmen require the greatest courage when they think not of themselves but of the nation. Individuals must have the courage of self-immolation, but it may be said that a nation does not have the right to commit suicide. Therefore there are times when statesmen must have the courage to save the nation at the cost of their own lives. However, in such...