Word: akihito
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...slender young woman in the ivory-colored dress stepped out of the limousine in front of the Tokyo palace of Crown Prince Akihito, it was all that the police could do to restrain the 8,000 cheering teen-agers from mobbing her. "Suteki! Suteki!" the teen-agers cried -"Glorious! Glorious! Our future Empress!'' Michiko Shoda, 24, daughter of a flour magnate, and the first commoner in at least 15 centuries to be betrothed to the heir to the Japanese throne, had come with her parents to pay a ceremonial call on the young prince. After the usual formalities...
...found "Miss Shoda the most suitable." So as not to lose face, everybody solemnly accepted this version and formally approved the marriage. An hour later, Michiko and her parents were at the Imperial Palace to pay their respects to the Emperor and Empress, and Akihito, dressed now in ancient court costume, went off to the three Shinto shrines on the palace grounds to tell his ancestors about his betrothal. Michiko herself went on TV to tell the Japanese people what she liked about the prince. "A clean, sincere man," she said, "whom I know I can trust...
...once, the Shoda door was opened by a low-bowing male secretary who ushered him into the drawing room. Hidesaburo Shoda, 55, and his pretty, grey-haired wife, Tomiko, bowing low, motioned their visitor to an armchair. In courtly language, Usami announced the news: His Imperial Highness, Crown Prince Akihito, had informed the Imperial Household Board that he wished to marry Michiko, the Shodas' 24-year-old daughter. Conforming to tradition, the Shodas expressed consternation and surprise; the father made low obeisance, murmured that the honor was too great, his family too lowly, and therefore he must decline...
Michiko, who stands 5 ft. 2 in., weighs 115 Ibs., and is 34-24-36, is a graduate of the University of the Sacred Heart (for women) of Tokyo and was the first non-Catholic to become president of the students' committee. She met Prince Akihito at the mountain resort of Karuizawa, where the Shodas have a summer villa, and beat him at tennis, 6-1. Said Akihito later: "She overwhelmed me." This spring Michiko joined the Tokyo Lawn Tennis Club and in May won the club's Crown Prince Cup in a tournament, while Prince Akihito looked...
...vivid memories of the days when the police could arrest and torture as part of the government's thought-control policy began to speak out. Among them were 1,500 Presbyterian churches of the United Church of Christ, and the Japanese Intellectuals' Congress, headed by Crown Prince Akihito's former tutor...