Reviewing modern history, Lt.-Ca Takashima observed that Japan's sweeping victory in 1905 over Russia, who was generally regarded as possessing the strongest army in the world, baffled world expectations and reversed the international order between Europe and Asia, thus marking the start of the reconstruction of the world on the basis of a new order.
All shortcomings of Western culture were fully exposed by the outbreak of the European War which had led to the birth of Bolshevized Russia, he continued. The birth of Manchoukuo, the withdrawal of Japan from the League of Nations, and the building up of a new China as the result of Japan's military operations in China during the past eighteen months, marked only the process of the rebirth of East Asia along the lines of the Japanese "Imperial Wa: declared.
Believing that the new political ideology of Germany provided a ray of hope for the renaissance of Euro pean culture, Lt.-Col. Takashima continued with the statement that the joint front formed by Japan, Germany, and Italy against the Comintern of the world. had given a strong impetus to the reconstruction of a new world. The new political line-up will exert far-reaching effects, not only in the Mediterranean Sea and south-western Europe, but also in south-western Asia and South America, he said.—Domei "Cry for Deliverance"
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