To cheer up the soldiers, hundreds of geishas, storytellers, wrestlers, chorus girls, magicians, actors and prostitutes have traveled the long weary miles from Japan to the China front during the past 18 months. The same route has been crossed by other hundreds of newspaper men, photographers, lecturers, poets, painters, cartoonists, novelists, composers and lyric writers, for few campaigns in history have ever been so painstakingly reported to a home population as Japan's war in China.
For the home folks, the most popular reportage is done by the poets. No Japanese newspaper is complete without its sprinkling of wartime poetry. No...
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