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...bigwigs, facing fresh competition from the DPJ, have also been making appearances back on their home turf. "Big shots are going back to their constituencies for the first time in years - to make a cleaner impression," says Daigo Sato, of dot-jp, a non-profit that places students in Diet internships. Fumio Kyuma, former defense minister and LDP representative of Nagasaki-prefecture, has recently made the rounds in order to secure a 10th term now that he's up against 28-year-old female DPJ candidate Eriko Fukuda. Fukuda not only represents the DPJ in age (on average, DPJ members...
...Miho Daigo set up his sensitive equipment at an all-girl revue, reported that temperature in the theater rose two degrees each time the girls went into their hottest numbers...
...Japanese have a maxim: "Just as there is but one sun in heaven, so there is but one emperor on earth." Six centuries ago the maxim was rudely shattered when rival feudal lords supported a "Southern Emperor" named Go-Daigo and a "Northern Emperor" named Kogon (both members of the imperial family). The issue was threshed out in a 50-year "War of the Chrysanthemums." Finally Go-Daigo's line gave up the sacred symbols of authority-jewel, mirror, sword-to Kogon's line. Since then, in the misty eye of Japanese history, the imperial descent has been...
Last week General Douglas MacArthur suddenly discovered that the War of the Chrysanthemums still smoldered. To the Allied Commander from one Hiromichi Kumazawa, self-styled "Emperor" and 19th direct lineal descendant of Go-Daigo, came a petition requesting a full and impartial investigation of his claim to be Japan's rightful sovereign. To the pretender's "secret hideout" went LIFE Correspondent Richard E. Lauterbach. His report...
...obscure, ambitious general deserted the once potent Hoji family of military tyrants and threw his army on the side of the exiled Emperor Go Daigo. The Emperor's side won. Having set Go Daigo, descendant of the Sun Goddess, back on his throne in Kyoto, Takauji Ashikaga lost no time in pulling himself up by the sacred boot straps of the Emperor. As the Emperor's most trusted adviser he hoped to become Shogun. When Go Daigo appointed his son instead, Takauji, furious but resourceful, persuaded the Emperor that his son was a traitor...
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