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Greatest phrasemaker in Japan is Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye, who invented Japan's vague rationalization for the war in China, "New Order in East Asia." A few months ago he minted another: shintaisei, "new structure."
Every tongue in Japan rolled this Konoyism with great relish, though no one knew precisely what it meant. It was variously used as a sales slogan, an expletive, a philosophic concept, even as an excuse for nonpayment of debts. But the most common interpretation the one on which Prince Konoye rode to the Premiership in...
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