Word: aoyama
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Scion of the Ages. Hirohito was born in the lying-in chamber of Tokyo's Aoyama Palace on April 29, 1901. Japan itself was suffering a rebirth. It was 48 years since U.S. Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry had opened the ports of the Land of the Gods to U.S. trade and western ideas. Four years hence Japan would defeat vast, backward Russia and emerge as a foremost Pacific power...
...branch in Tokyo is to be found at 79 Onden 3-chome, Shibuyaku. The telephone number is Aoyama 36-0404. The figure four is significant since it translates two ways-"shi" or "yon." The former can also translate death...
...Peers, Baron Hiranuma, President of the Privy Council, and the Minister of the Imperial Household who dropped an august intimation : the Son of Heaven will bestow posthumously on Dr. Dan the First Order of the Sacred Treasure. After a Buddhist funeral the august remains will be buried at Aoyama Cemetery, Tokyo...
...unknown Japanese patriot who committed hara-kiri several months ago close to the compound of the former U. S. Embassy (TIME, June 9) as a protest against the enactment of the U. S. Immigration Bill (TIME. April 28, June 2, et seq.) is to be disinterred from Aoyama Cemetery and reinterred in the military cemetery where lie some of Japan's greatest heroes...