Word: akasaka
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since an orchid is the puppet Emperor's official flower, his Legation in Tokyo was decked with 750 orchids. Wherever he appeared Japanese schoolchildren, drilled for weeks in a Hymn to Manchukuo, shrilled it. In Tokyo he was quartered in Akasaka Palace, a replica of the Trianon Palace at Versailles and in 1922 the Tokyo residence of Edward of Wales. There Boss Endo suddenly popped up to announce: "While Emperor Rang Te is here no political matters will be discussed. None whatever. The Manchukuan Constitution effectively keeps the Manchukuo Court out of politics...
...Abode of Daughters of Joy," among the most sumptuous quarters in New Tokyo, and the first to be completely rebuilt. Not in the fire area was the smart residential district near the Imperial Palace and the Akasaka Palace (8) of Crown Prince Chichibu...