Word: akihito
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...rumor mills had it that Hirohito, while closeted with MacArthur, discussed abdication in favor of Crown Prince Akihito, 11, and a regency. But there was no visible pressure on him to leave the throne. If abdication was in fact discussed, it was because Hirohito himself wanted...
...Premier Prince Naruhiko Higashi-Kuni, were serving the Allies but were understandably nervous. Neither American use of the Imperial institution, nor Japanese reverence for it, necessarily required the indefinite presence of Hirohito himself. Jap and U.S. thoughts alike were much upon Hirohito's son, eleven-year-old Prince Akihito, and the Emperor's frail younger brother, Prince Chichibu, the logical (but not inevitable) choice for regent...
...fronts, then withdrew it. The Emperor called in Foreign Minister Togo. A Tokyo radio operator, chatting with a station in Switzerland, said that an important message was expected but still unfiled. The Japanese press played up two possible successors to Hirohito: his eleven-year-old son, Crown Prince Akihito, and his 40-year-old brother, Prince Takamatsu. Radio Tokyo referred vaguely but constantly to the comings & goings of the Emperor's elder statesmen...
...nothing could be clearly discerned as the darkness of Japan's darkest hour grew deeper. But there were rumors of a struggle between War Minister Anami and the diehard war lords, on one side, and an unofficial, pro-peace "Committee of 21." There were rumors that Crown Prince Akihito, 11, might succeed his father...
...implications of this analogy are clear. The Emperor institution (in the form of Hirohito or, if he is too discredited, Crown Prince Akihito) must be retained to save the Japanese nation from disintegration. The Emperor institution must be used to prepare the way for a nonaggressive, nontotalitarian state...