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...Supreme Commander gave his blessing to Shigeru Yoshida as Japan's third postwar premier...
Stuffy, blundering Yoshida ran into immediate trouble. While he struggled to form a government, Tokyo leftists swarmed into the streets. They coupled the demand "Give us more rice," with the cry "Down with Yoshida." One mob, 200,000 strong, marched on the Premier's residence. Thirty demonstration leaders, among them Kyuichi Tokuda, Secretary General of Japan's Communist Party, entered the house, bedded down in the front parlor, threatened to stay until the Premier resigned...
Premier Kijuro Shidehara was abed with a cold, but he was not as sick as his Government. MacArthur's order covered a majority of Shidehara's colleagues, and sent them scurrying to the Premier's bedside for counsel. Foreign Minister Shigeru Yoshida was assigned to ask the Allied Commander for clarification. Should the Cabinet resign en masse, merely eliminate its undesirables, or stay on as exempt...
None has caught it so understandingly as the 20 pages of Robert Louis Stevenson's essay on Yoshida-Torajiro, Japan's mid-19th Century fanatic on westernization, who used to keep awake for his midnight studies by putting mosquitoes up his sleeve. No recent book has probed the Japanese mind so deeply as the 20 pages of The Japanese Smile by Lafcadio Hearn, who became a Japanese subject, spent the rest of his life repudiating western civilization. Jujitsu. Yet "that mind," says Expert Kiralfy, "is our real enemy. Without it Emperor Hirohito's armies are just...
Finally, Premier Konoye proceeded in leisurely fashion to round out his Cabinet. Instead of talking to candidates face to face, he called them up by telephone. He made it clear that the Big Four - Konoye, Matsuoka, Tojo, Yoshida - would run the show. For the other Cabinet posts he did not pick big names or big careers, but five efficient, willing bureaucrats, two businessmen, and one journalist turned free-lance politician...