The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-08-14

JAPAN'S WAR AIMS
War is no accident, nor does
military disaster come like a
bolt out of blue sky. The war
i'm the Pacific had been brewing
ever since the last war came TO
an end, and Pearl Harbor had
long been forecast by Port Ar
thur, where the japanese made
a similar sneak attack on the
Russian fleet in 1904. Despite
this, and despite innumerable
warnings about the coming
storm. both the United States
and Great Britain were caught
by surprise and suffered catas-
trophies which could be nullified
only by years of fighting and
heavy sacrifices in life and treas
ure.
The causes for this were many,
but two stand out above all oth-
ers. The first was the inability
of the peaceful, civilized, civil
ian, and d g m era tic mind
brought up an live and-let-llVe
philosophy TO comprehend, or
even to accept as credible, the
cold -bleededy ea4etill ee7Caffd
utterly ruthless mentality OF men
who dream in terms OF world
conquest and count lives as
merely so many paWns IN
game that used TO be the sport OF
kings. The second was the COM
placent sense of superiority ira
ditional with the West toward
the East, which led to fatal UNI
derestimation of JapenS strength
and Japa n csc aggressiveness.
Pearl Harbor and the fall OF
Singapore and the Philippines
were the result.
1t is therefore Of the utmost
importance for every American
TO know what Japan S war aims
are, and how she plans TO at
tain them. The best sources OF
that knowledge are the Japanese
themselves. Like the Nazls, the
japanese have not been back
ward in declaring themselves.
Like the Nazis, they, too, pursued
two lines-an official line ad-
vancing limited aims with con-
ciliatory gestures 10 confuse and
divide expected opposition so
that the intended victims could
be swallowed one by one, and
propaganda line stating the true
aims.
A HUNDRED YEAR WAR
These true aims arc even more
sweeping, more deeply ingrained
in the Japanese national charac-
ter, and more fanatically pur-
sued than those of the Nazis.
They contemplate nothing less
than a glorious Hundred Year
War" for the destruction of Am
erican and European civilization
and the determination OF the
whole white race, after which
Imperial Japan Will establish
and enforce peace on her own
terms. 1t is project which the
japanese boast they started IN
1881, when they conquered Man
churia as the first step toward
world dominion. Though they
we're willing TO cooperate with
the Nazis and the .Fascists in the
first stages Of this enterprise,
these. too, would later have had
TO bow to their will.
But let the japanese speak Tor
themselves.
"Japan is the foundation and
the axis of the world. The world
must be unified around Japan
Without unity there will be no
peace. When the world is uni
fled under one power, then there
will be eternal peace. Japan is
the ruling nation of the world. .
Prof. T. Komaki, Kyoto Inn
perial University, over Tokyo
Radio, Feb. 2227, 1912.
The Empire of Nippon has
taken the initiative and assumed
the role of herald of a reorgan-
lied world. 1t is quite con-
ceivable that had Nippon not
exposed the incapacity and
worthlessness Of the League col
Nations), Germany would hard
ly have been able to rearm her
self, regain lost ground and forge
olz,l ~, tho ,uorld stage IN Sic n