Word: chichibu
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...Mori & Co. feel, is a fountain pen so good that it will inspire awe. Even Japan's Imperial House is now being dragged into industrial promotion, though as yet His Majesty the Son of Heaven is sacrosanct. Latest pictures show the Divine Emperor's popular brother Prince Chichibu seated grinning in a Datsun (see cut). Screams a recent Datsun advertisement: "FIRST NO LAST." This peculiar sales argument is stated more fully thus: FIRST Motor Car Produced in Japan In Performance and Quality In Public Favor...
...station was full of Japanese, with scarcely a native Manchukuan to be seen. Far down the track a whistle shrieked. The Japanese crowd went wild. Puffing great clouds of smoke, a train of the Japanese South Manchuria Railway drew in, bearing Japan's popular, mountain-climbing Prince Chichibu, eldest brother of the Son of Heaven...
Stepping jauntily from his private car, Chichibu snapped a salute at the Puppet Emperor, then drew off his gloves and shook hands with Kang Teh. Japanese field guns began a long, long 101-gun salute for Prince Chichibu. When it was over he stepped into a Japanese limousine and whizzed off, leaving Emperor Kang Teh standing at the station. This, for a proper sovereign, would be the ultimate indignity, but the Puppet Emperor did not seem to mind. While the Japanese crowd rushed off to cheer Chichibu at the Japanese Embassy, the Emperor rode back to his palace. Hospitality...
...centimetres long (about 19 3/4 in.), weighed 7 lb., 3 oz. With bumble folk kneeling outside the Palace gate in freezing weather, a stream of princes, dignitaries and ambassadors began to roll in with congratulations at 7 a. m. First to arrive were Prince and Princess Chichibu. He, as the Emperor's eldest brother, has played for years the thankless role of heir presumptive. Relieved of this by the babe, brisk Chichibu and his beauteous Princess, who have had to remain childless lest they have a son before the Emperor, appeared radiant. For the Army spoke Lieut.-General Sadao...
According to Dreamer Fukunaga the loyalty to the U. S. of the 140,000 Japanese residents of the Hawaiian Islands in the event of war would be "speculative." It was to them that the Chichibu Maru was carrying 77 cases of Dreams, seized by the U. S. customs as "treasonable...