Chapter 611 – Hatoyama’s Outburst

When the uninvited guest had departed, Kishi Nobusuke, who had expressed his goodwill at the return of Ichiro Hatoyama, showed himself to confer on this new circumstance.

The cherry blossom season had passed, but that did not delay Allen Wilson from expressing his curiosity about Tokyo, the heart of Japan; it had been hard to make the trip, and it was a pity not to walk around the world-famous city, although he thought he should have given his all for the sake of the British Empire, there was no delay in looking around.

In Alan Wilson’s mind, from now until the twenty-first century, Tokyo will usher in Japan’s position in the world has never been, representing the entire Asia’s highest level of development.

Although the hardware facilities of the Magic City in the twenty-first century have already caught up with Tokyo, but in some details there is still so little meaning.

Ginza was the most famous place for foreigners, and had actually been the busiest part of Tokyo before the war.

Despite being in a city with a different civilization, if not completely foreign, Vivien Leigh felt more comfortable than ever holding the man’s hand, and it was only in this place that she could feel that the man belonged to her completely.

This is already enough, she must consider the man’s career, as well as her own age, can not be too greedy.

Not to mention the fact that Allen Wilson had never expressed any displeasure over his age, and had even prevented her from going under the knife on her face, preferring to see the slow age unforgiving national treasure.

“How do you feel about the city?” Alan Wilson inquired as he took Vivien Leigh’s hand and strolled along.

“It’s a little better than Kuala Lumpur or Shangri-La! Or almost, the Japanese people seem to live at a fast pace, one seems to be in a hurry?” Vivienne cocked her head and voiced her opinion.

“The eyes are very sharp, this city can even be compared to New York London.” Alan Wilson nodded his head as he listened, “As for the pace of life, except that England has already passed that time, and luckily, the Industrial Revolution emerged from England. All the countries in Europe have already suffered what they should have suffered hundreds of years ago.”

With regard to the harsh sea conditions in the North Atlantic, after the colonial era opened, how many people were buried in the Atlantic is simply an incalculable number, and the nickname of the Stormy Ocean is definitely not for nothing.

“Comparable to New York London? I will not agree to put aside, the Americans can think that there is no city in the world that can be compared to New York.” Fei Wen Li whispered with a smile,, “Be careful that our allies will be dissatisfied oh!”

“Sooner or later, New York will also become a city of aging facilities and hidden dirt, and there will be a constant stream of new cities, just like after Napoleon III transformed Paris.” Alan Wilson shrugged, “It’s an inevitable trend, and Tokyo still has a lot of room for remodeling.”

“Are you trying to get me to hoard land?” Vivien Lei thought of Alan Wilson’s suggestion for her to hoard land in Xiangjiang and opened her mouth.

“Nah! It’s not easy!” Alan Wilson shook his head decisively, thought for a moment and said, “Xiangjiang’s objective conditions are only one in the whole world, being able to rake in a fortune there is already unimaginable, Japan we want to reach out isn’t easy, mainly we have to look at what the Americans have in store for us.”

Now Japan are not fully recovered from the war, hoarding is also a little too early, at least wait until after twenty years is also too late. Besides, waiting for the United States to harvest the Japanese stock market is not easier?

Accompanied Vivien Lei slow walk the streets of Tokyo at the same time, since the war after the existence of Japan’s greatly reduced, once again appeared in the headlines of the newspapers, this time it is a prisoner of war repatriation of things.

The Australians wanted the Japanese POWs to be repatriated after the development of the iron ore mines, but British Malaya had an onslaught of POW camps. If Malaya was not ruled by Britain, Australia would not have cared.

However, after the incident of the storming of the POW camps, Britain decided to repatriate, and the Australian government, after consideration, took a concerted action. After all, Australians believe in the saying that blood is thicker than water, and the policy of following Britain has become a foregone conclusion.

Britain should be considered lucky to have such a little brother, but unfortunately, Britain has never been at the bottom of the list in terms of maintaining cohesion, not to mention comparing with civilized countries with a long history, not even compared to France.

With Ireland being so close that it couldn’t even assimilate, Britain’s imbecility in maintaining centripetal force is evident.

But Australia, unaffected by its crotch-pulling motherland, once again took up the role of vanguard, with the Australian media launching a concerted attack on Japan’s refusal to accept POWs, leaving them to fend for themselves overseas.

Soon the not-so-distant memories of World War II, including the massacre of Australian POWs by the Japanese, as well as the murder of European expatriates in Southeast Asia and the use of women as comfort women, were being unearthed by the Australian media.

Now, five years after the end of World War II, Japan, which has become the backbone of support for U.S. military operations on the peninsula, has once again become the target of Australia’s verbal abuse.

Australia’s first outburst was just the beginning, followed immediately by Britain, Portugal and the Netherlands.

Especially British Malaya, it is not Allen Wilson is deliberately leading the Japanophobia storm, but still related to him in Tokyo, the reason is that Allen Wilson in the name of good after the impact of the POW camps, the vast majority of the financial expenditure of British Malaya this year, to buy a batch of the most expensive aspirin in history.

The appropriation promised by London at the previous Kuala Lumpur meeting just turned around and came back into London’s hands. Theoretically this year British Malaya has no financial balance, the money is spent on treating prisoners of war and repatriating them.

So at this time the major newspapers in British Malaya to Japan’s attack, absolutely out of sincerity, without a trace of falsehood.

The fifth battle on the peninsula is in the heat of the battle, replace MacArthur Li Qiwei, not so narcissistic as his predecessor, soon noticed the instability of the rear, on the one hand, let the new commander of the Eighth Army, James Van Fleet, continue to make military deployments in accordance with the plan.

The U.S. Army has adopted the tactic of “gradual retreat, maintain contact, and kill a large number of enemy vital forces”. They prepare to launch a counterattack when the worship offensive is expected to be unsustainable for their opponents.

Li Qiwei himself sent a telegram to ask what happened in Japan, at this time the United States army is brewing counter-offensive, if Japan is unstable, it will certainly have an impact on the front line.

Learning that it was because of the delay in the issue of prisoners of war that caused the British side to become dissatisfied and unite with Holland, Portugal and Australia to launch an onslaught against Japan, Li Qiwei began to let the Far East Command in the rear to inquire about the situation.

It was at this time that Ichiro Hatoyama, who had spent a few days uniting his old ministries, formally lashed out at Shigeru Yoshida’s Cabinet in the Diet as well as in public opinion, first of all Hatoyama Ichiro took to Japan’s largest Sankei Shimbun newspaper to attack Shigeru Yoshida’s Cabinet’s indifference to the work of the prisoners of war.

So much so that Japan is now under fire from four countries – Britain, Australia, Holland and Portugal. The interview was very strong and Ichiro Hatoyama used it to vent his anger at being betrayed by Shigeru Yoshida.

Shigeru Yoshida and his right-hand man, Isao Ikeda, were the focus of Ichiro Hatoyama’s fire. A day later, Ichiro Hatoyama arrived at the Diet chamber and expressed his views on the POW repatriation incident to the cheers and support of a crowd of old-guard legislators.

“There are now over half a million soldiers in the hands of Britain, Australia and Holland and Portugal, soldiers who were hoodwinked by the previous military ministries and are still paying the price today. They have been out of Japan for more than five years. When Britain expressed its willingness to release these Japanese to their homeland, our Prime Minister treated it as if he had not heard them, and I do not understand why this is so.”

“Doesn’t Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida realize how many countries are bashing Japan right now? How can we be an ostrich and ignore the situation of hundreds of thousands of Japanese and pretend that there is no such thing?”

Ichiro Hatoyama loudly questioned Shigeru Yoshida in front of the current Diet members, “Does the Prime Minister think that if we willingly listen to the U.S., we will be able to solve everything? Then why is Japan being blamed now?”

Ichiro Hatoyama’s outburst caused the Diet to instantly boil over, and many of the legislators who supported Ichiro Hatoyama applauded, or rather vocalized their support for Ichiro Hatoyama.

This speech was also quickly serialized by major newspapers, including the Sankei Shimbun, and for a time Shigeru Yoshida was verbally attacked from all walks of life for his evasive attitude on the issue of POW repatriation.

Although the old Japanese soldiers were far less respected than they had been before the war, and some social problems had already arisen. But these are no excuses for ignoring the issue. After all, it involves political correctness, and up to hundreds of thousands of Japanese can’t be left in exile unattended.

Ichiro Hatoyama, who spoke out on this matter, would have been Japan’s first post-war prime minister, and if MacArthur had not forced Ichiro Hatoyama to do so in the name of the occupation forces, the prime minister would have been Ichiro Hatoyama now, not Shigeru Yoshida.

Even now, Ichiro Hatoyama still has a large number of supporters in the Diet, and the fact that such a heavyweight politician spoke out over the POW issue, coupled with political correctness, made Japanese public opinion unanimous as never before, pulling Shigeru Yoshida into the vortex.

“Mr. Wilson, we have been made aware of the British attitude, and in fact it is quite unnecessary.” Lieutenant General George Stechtermeyer, Commander of the Far Eastern Air Force, took the initiative to come to the British Embassy to talk about the matter.

Lieutenant General George Steutechmeyer has largely understood the ins and outs, after all, this is Japan, in the country under the control of the U.S. military in Japan, after some investigation, the U.S. military intelligence agencies quickly grasped, Allen Wilson’s purpose of this visit to Japan, as well as the Japanese government’s feigned deafness.

“Honorable General, in fact, my time is also very valuable, it is not easy to come to Japan once, of course, I hope that things appear a result, however, the Japanese people are adopting delaying tactics. It’s simply an insult to the career of a civil servant!”

Alan Wilson laughed, but still spoke in a friendly manner, “Regarding this apparently polite, but in principle opposed move by the Japanese, I feel that the necessary pressure is completely logical. All the consequences should also be borne by these inactive Japanese officials.”