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WHY THE JAPANESE CHARACTER?
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Hirohito is the third emperor since the Meji restoration.
With the Meji restoration, the clan chiefs also worked out a program of industrialization for Nippon. They sold their lands to the peasants under a new land-reform program. With the wealth thus acquired, they took over the sponsorship of the industrial program. Actually the great clan families of Mitsui, Mitsubishi, Sumi' tomo, and one or two others developed into the wealthiest closed corporation systems in the world. World War One enriched these clan families. Until the bombings on the industrial enterprises of Japan, this war was doing the same thing, actually at the expense of the sweat of the Japanese people.
Except for a few months, a member of one of the top four clans has been the head of the Japanese Government since the Meji restoration. Two political parties did develop in Japan, but they had no opportunity to bring the so-called "masses" into government. The one "popular choice" prime minister Hara was assassinated.
In Japan, the Upper House of Parliament or the House of Peers has been dominant, which is contrary to the general practice in parliamentary government. The House of Peers has 300 members and they are the clan chiefs of the 300 clans in the Japanese feudalistic system. The President of the House of Peers still is the head of the Takugawa Shogunate. The Japanese Constitution never did give away any of the powers of the clan chiefs. Today, as they always have, they still
dominate Japan politically and economically. What the clan chiefs have wanted has been the course Japan has taken. The men who have carried out the program of conquest, the generals and admirals, have been linked to the clan program because they have been prominent members of two of the top clans.
In the course followed by the Japanese Government, the Nipponese people have had no say. They have been serfs in the manner of medieval peasants in Western Europe. Any effort to reconstitute Japan will require the destruction of this entire system; either that, or it will require the I'solation of Japan, which few observers thin\ is possible. If the system is destroyed, it will mean the crushing of the Japanese people as well as the government because the people are imbued with the fanaticism of Shintoism. American leaders, afraid of the chaos of such destruction, favor retaining the emperor, shady and shaky