JAPAN . . . HIROHITO'S BROTHER DROPS A BOMBSHELL

A shocked Japan learned that its imperial family has harbored a high-level World War II dissenter for 50 years. In an interview published today, Prince Mikasa, the 78-year-old brother of the late Japanese Emperor Hirohito, called Japan's actions in World War II "aggression" and said his family behaved brutally.The prince also revealed that a team from the United Nations' forerunner, the League of Nations, was served fruit laced with cholera germs when it came to investigate Japan's invasion of China in the late '30s. The Yomiuri, Japan's largest newspaper, conducted the interview after the recent discovery of a 1944 speech Mikasa delivered to soldiers "out of a desperate desire to bring the war to a close." BTW: Criticism of the army during the war was treason.parpar