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Page Six I -r ,vr-7-T7xn -r Otto'D. 3?"S v folischus i. .in '-.'.a I riiirfoiar-' THE LA GRANDE EVENING OUSERVEB.jLA GRANDE, OREGON With Major Hooole Thursday, August 23, 1943 Japanese Troops at Yasukuni Shrine "The United States, unaware of the complete preparation on the tmrt of Nippon . . . underestimated the actual strength of our country. PREPARATION FOR WAR VII F order to prepare herself for the task of world conquest, Japan, like Nazi Germany, car ried through within 10 years a complete spiritual, polltlcul, eco nomic, and military mobilization of the nation. The mobilization began in 1831, when the "Man churia Incident" put the nation in a war-like mood and the military in the saddle. It was fairly well completed just before Pearl Har bor. Through It, Japan wos con verted from a promising democ racy into a totalitarlon military state whose super-structure fol lowed the Nazi blue-print, but whose foundation was wholly Japanese. The spiritual mobilization con sisted of a ruthless purge of all Americon and European thought, and a return -to the spirit of Old Japan. L. ?ralism and individual ism, freedom end democracy, which had given Japan the sem blance of a modern nation, were denounced as causes of disunity and decay, and expunged as "dn gcrous thoughts." Instead, Japan was subjected to a total regimen tation of every phase of national life as rigid as that at. Nazi Ger many. In. the spiritual field it was even more successful- be cause it had an ancient religion to build upon. As in Germany, this new totalitarianism, baaed on a revival of ancient ways and ancient superstitions, was hailed in Japan as the wave of the fu ture and presented to the world as meonB for its salvation. The political mobilization con sisted of the suppression of all political parties ond tho creation of a one-party state flejictionlng under the Fuehrer principle ond centering around tho Emperor. But the leadership was completely in the hands of the dominant military clique. The single party organization, together with the Diet filled by it, became mci -ly a puppet of the military, like the Emperor. The State Above AH The economic mobilization, car ried through by so-called "New Bureaucrats" under the aegis of the military, established complete state control over Industry, com merce, and trade, over capital and labor, over production and con sumption. Finally, the military mobiliza tion, the end product of all other measures, was completed In greatest secrecy, but wllh such efficiency that its results surprised the world. Part of the military mobilization was the "battle of the cradle" to Increase Japan's birth rate In order to replace the losses of the, war, to produce more people to shout for more land, and to furnish more soldiers to conquer it. In any case, when Japan sent her air and naval forces agulnst Pearl Harbor, she was ready for total war. ' frpnOM the viewpoint of the su prcme importance of the State, we must regulate and control the benefits ond liberties of the in dividual. The State is the totality and the Individual is a part. The whole doe ''t exist for the part but the part for tho whole. The part lives through thi life of the whole, and If ther' is a struggle between the whol'' ond the part, or even between different parts (I.e., political parties), the whole and the parts will be destroyed together." Showa Ishin (The Showa Restoration) by Yosuke Matsuoka, Tokyo, 1938. "Even in Japan ideas of demo cratic liberalism controlled our national thought for a while, but a great reaction has risen against them, and the parliamentary gov ernment advocated by some statesmen Is now strongly de nounced, and the totalitarianism which has been the principle of our national structure for 3000 years is rapidly reviving." Ko kusal Nippon no Chll (The In ternational Position of Japan), by Tosliio Shiratori, Tokyo, 1038. Persuasion Through Detention "Tho Idea of putting persons to death simply because they will not divest their minds of conta gious thoughts of dangerous char acter Is revolting to the Japanese mind. . . . Under Ihe revised pen"? preservation law, thought offend ers reluctant to reform when re leased from prison uro liublo to be sent to a preventive detention station where they will be kept until the authorities have satisfied themselves that they have become thoroughly converted." Yoshiro Nakamura, Superintendent of Pre ventive Detention Station at To yotama Penitentiary, Tokyo, in the Nlchl Nichl, May 10, 1941. , "The United States, unaware of the complete preparations on the part of Nippon,' not only made a serious diplomatic blunder In the Nippon-United States conversa tions at Washington, but also underestimated the actual strength of our country. The United States was misled particu larly by the assumption that Nip pon's notional power hod become exhausted by the military opera tions in connection with the China Emergency." The New Order in Greater East Asia (Japanese mag azine), April, 1942. "That the rise and fall of na tions follows the rise and fall of populations hos been proved. . . . The Welfare Ministry is arrang ing to issue public commendations of couples having more than 10 children and to provide these with government subsidies for the education of the children as necessary. . . ."Report by Social Affairs Bureau of the Welfare Ministry, May 7, 1941. "The people of the United States should recognize the rapid ly growing population of Japan ond the absolute necessity for more territory for their exist ence." Shigeru Yoshida, Japa nese ambassador to Great Britain, to State Secretary Hull, June 12, 1930; Peace and War, U. S. State Department publication. (NEXT: Appeal to Color) Our Boarding House Out Our Way J. R. 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