Text extracted from opening pages of book: GOODBYE JAPAN Without doubt there is no other power with which America has locked in a death struggle yet about which she knows so little as Japan. Goodbye JAPAN BI JOSEPH NEWMAN 1942 t. B. FISCHER NEW YORK COPYRIGHT 1942 BY L. B. FISCHER PUBLISHING CORP. MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY AMERICAN BOOK.-STRATFORD PRESS, INC. Designed by Stefan Salter To Mary for her encouragement and help and to my teacher of Japan whose genius unhappily has been proved by the great disaster ACKNOWLEDGMENT To the New York Herald Tribune the author expresses his thanks for permission to use material taken from reports which he sent from Tokyo, and to its manag ing editor 9 Mr. George Cornish, his appreciation for securing for him a leave of absence which made it possible for him to write this book by escaping intern ment in Japan. CONTENTS PAGE Preface xi CHAPTER One The Unholy Trinity 1 Two Eight Corners of the World 58 Three School for Puppets 77 Four Samurai Serenade 115 Five The Press Gets Scooped 155 Six The Trinity in Turmoil 1 68 Seven Rice, Rickets and Rackets 202 Eight All for One 220 Nine National Guests 240 Ten The Ball Starts Rolling 265 Eleven Toward the New Order 511 PREFACE i HERE is a legend among the Japanese people that those who f oil to catch a glimpse of famous Mt. Fuji as they are leaving the picturesque islands will never return. As I sailed from Yokohama shortly before the outbreak of war, dark clouds formed in the sky, hid ing the face of the beautiful mountain which Japa nese consider a sacred symbol of purity, serenity and peace. I was leaving on one of the last three evacuation ships sent to the United States by theJapanese gov ernment to withdraw as many of its nationals as possi ble before launching an attack against the democracies. The failure of Mt. Fuji to show her face that day was an augury with deep significance. For on that very afternoon that she remained in hiding, either through shame or sorrow, or both, Prince Fumimaro Konoye was completing arrangements for the resignation of