“The spy phobia possesses all inhabitants of Nippon. No one believes a foreigner can possibly be living in or visiting Japan for any simple reason such as business or pleasure…One reason why service is so bad in the Imperial Hotel is that the room boys and waiters are too busy keeping an eye on ‘spies’ to have time for their regular duties. Even school children are offered rewards for turning in suspicious characters…Persecution of Christian churches is to stamp out foreign influence which through missionaries operating with money sent from abroad, has been exerted over Christian Japanese. Christians in Japan were advised to quit, for Christianity, it seems, runs against the guiding spirit of the national structure. Christian schools were ordered to reorganized to conform to fundamental policies based on the Imperial Way“
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