Word: akihito
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...chubby young Prince of the August Succession and Enlightened Benevolence, it had been a most enlightening year. Last week, pleased with his son's progress, the Emperor of Japan rehired Crown Prince Akihito's U.S. tutor for another year, at a raise in salary. Mrs. Elizabeth Gray Vining, a Quaker lady from Philadelphia, had well earned her $2,000 and keep...
Since January, the Empress herself had been studying English with Mrs. Vining, and Akihito's three sisters and younger brother were all getting lessons, too. Besides this solid schedule of tutoring, Mrs. Vining had her regular classes at the democratized Peers and Peeresses schools, somehow managed to splice in talks to Japanese teachers about how to teach the democratic...
...spare time, hard-working Mrs. Vining has been studying Japanese. She had been hired merely to teach Akihito English (he has Japanese instructors in everything else), but she found it hard to get the prince to pay attention. So many learned professors and eminent lawyers had lectured Akihito on so many weighty matters that his learning edge was dulled...
When Elizabeth Gray Vining left for Japan to become tutor to its Crown Prince, U.S. newspapers wondered whether Akihito would learn distaff democracy at her knee. Last week Mrs. Vining sent the U.S. an informal report on her first two months in Tokyo. One between-the-lines conclusion: it might take a long time...
Despite the glamorized buildup to her job (a favorite newspaper comparison: Anna and the King of Siam), Mrs. Vining sees Akihito in private only one hour a week. A Japanese, Professor Hiroshi Kikuchi, gives the Prince most of his English lessons, which take seven of his 27 schoolroom hours (the Prince spends only four hours a week on Japanese...