Word: akihito
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Last week Tsugu-no-Miya Akihito ("The Prince of the August Succession and Enlightened Benevolence") learned the name of his new tutor: Mrs. Elizabeth Gray Vining of Philadelphia, Pa. Twelve-year-old* Akihito will meet Mrs. Vining some time this fall when she flies to Japan for her first visit and a year's stay. She will be given a small salary, a house, a car and servants...
...Akihito already has a male instructor, Reginald H. Blyth, a Briton interned in Japan during the war, who has been teaching the prince English since last December, thinks Mrs. Vining may be "disappointed with his limited vocabulary." (Akihito learned the future tense only last week.) Says Blyth: "If only she could develop initiative in him. He is too passive...
...Akihito Tsugo-no-Miya, Hirohito's eldest son, went down to the shore for the summer. In beach robe and summer straw, running with his pooch, Jon, he looked about like any other Jap kid-except that he was a little young and soft for twelve...
...little truck with women as possible. Princes of Japan's Imperial House were traditionally removed at an early age from feminine influence-even their own mother's. But last week Emperor Hirohito looked around for an American schoolmarm to tutor twelve-year-old Tsugu-no-miya Akihito ("The Prince of the August Succession and Enlightened Benevolence"). Hirohito begged Dr. George D. 'Stoddard, head of the American Education Mission, to help him pick the right kind of U.S. woman...
...linking the phrases of Jefferson, Lincoln, and F.D.R., gave Japan a new ruler. "We, the Japanese people . . . do proclaim the sovereignty of the people's will." The Emperor was reduced to a "symbol of the state and of the unity of the people's will." Young Prince Akihito may still inherit a throne, but not a seat of power...