JAPAN AND WAR.
*" irL as'ked a Japanese friend," writes the London correspondent of the Yorkshire Post, "whether there would be popular support in Japan for a war with China. He replied by quoting a fable printed in Japanese scbool histories: Three famous statesmen of tbe 16tb century, Nobunaga, Hideyosbi and Iyeyashu, were asked by a philosopher what they would do if a nightingale refused to sing. 'I should kill it,' said the first. 'I should force it to sing,' said the second. The third replied: T should waifc till it sang.' These, iny fxiend added, ss& ika three moods of Japan. $[ho shall aay which gill P,*gv&iiX?%
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 4, 28 September 1937, Page 4
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