Word: yomiuri
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Whatever the reason for the light resistance, there was little serious expectation that Okinawa would come cheap. The island was too important a strategical prize for that. If it were lost, said the Tokyo newspaper Yomiuri-Hochi, Japan would have "no hope of turning the course of the war." Here Nippon must fight. And from Admiral Nimitz' headquarters, as the campaign went into its third day, came reports of rising resistance...
...newspaper Yomiuri, Navy spokesman Captain Hideo Hiraide wrote that, since the conquest of Java, Japan seemed to have taken the defensive while the Allies were on the offensive. He warned that Japan would probably be attacked from the air, that it was too soon for her newly captured raw materials to be fully exploited, that transportation was a difficult problem...
...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 "a question of old-age warships...
...Neutrality Pact with Russia. The Japanese are honorable people, not treaty-breakers like Hitler, and a Japanese would never think of violating a solemn covenant unless its violation became the more honorable course than the maintenance of its sanctity. In a mood of high morality the newspaper Yomiuri suggested to the Government that the national interest is the highest ethics. "There is no other way," concluded Yomiuri, "except to march forward in a fixed line of national policy and long-standing tradition...
Said the big daily Yomiuri soberly: "It cannot be denied that with the change in the international situation Japan's diplomatic policy will also have to be changed. . . . Whatever the change in diplomacy may be, it must be pervaded by a spirit of independence and autonomy, and follow the way of the Emperor. Diplomacy that depends on others is the diplomacy of a doomed country. In Japan this tendency is especially notable...