JAPAN: The Ayes Have It

A special town meeting of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere was called to order in Tokyo's monumental Diet Building last week by His Imperial Majesty Hirohito, 124th Emperor of Japan.

Reporting on the Sphere's recent expansion, Premier General Hideki Tojo advised that Russian territory was not expected to receive the benefit of further expansion for the moment: "Relations between Japan and the Soviet Union have undergone no change. . . . With progress of the war, enemy countries will, I presume, intensify their efforts to alienate Japan and the Soviet Union, but there is no chance for such intrigues to...

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