The Failure of the Operation and the Showa Emperor From this point on, until their return to the US at the end of December, Walsh and Draut were based at the Imperial Hotel, where they made vigorous contact with Archbishop Tatsuo Doi, Yama…

A foothold to the "Father Project. The biggest obstacle was the United States. In the U.S., when the conflict between Japan and China became fierce, Christian denominations that regarded China as an influential "missionary market" began to…

Britain joins forces with the Soviet Union After an audience with Pope Pius XI at the Holy See, Yamamoto visited France, Belgium, and the Netherlands, countries that Emperor Showa had visited when he was Crown Prince more than 20 years bef…

Against Communism and Fascism At that time, the Vatican and the Catholic Church had to confront two totalitarian forces. One was communism, led by the Soviet Union, and the other was fascism, the Nazi Party in Germany and the Fascist Party…

'Pray for the Emperor' The climax of Yamamoto's trip to various countries was a visit to the Vatican. As Kigley writes, on 21 January 1938, coinciding with the time when Yamamoto was explaining Japan's four positions on the Japan-Sino War,…

It's a war against communism! Yamamoto left Kobe port on 26 November 1937, at the time of the Japanese attack on Nanking from Shanghai, accompanied by a former diplomat named Shibasaki Michika. The original plan was to visit about 14 count…

"Envoys" to the West in the Sino-Japanese War The Japan-Sino War, known as the Japan-China War in modern times, is said to have started with the Lugou Bridge Incident that took place on July 7, 1937 in the suburbs of Beijing, China. The Lu…

Benedict XV's trust in him Yamamoto was in Rome for more than two months from the beginning of August 1919, negotiating in detail with the Holy See. During the negotiations, Yamamoto, at the behest of the Japanese side, i.e. the government…

Solving the South Sea Islands missionary problem The missionary problem in the South Seas Archipelago, which we have mentioned several times before, was as follows. When the First World War broke out in Europe in August 1914, Japan joined …

Salons for the cultured The Treaty of Versailles, signed at the Peace Conference, held Germany, the defeated nation, mainly responsible for the war. Germany lost some of its colonies and territories and had to pay reparations 25 times high…