Word: emperor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile a wife had been found for him, carefully chosen for her robust health and the proliferous reputation of her ancestors. She, Princess Sakado, espoused the present Emperor on May 10, 1900, and gave birth to the present Crown Prince on April...
...present Emperor and Empress continued their studies with energy during the entire period when they were Crown Prince and Princess. He dutifully attended the Imperial Diet. She busied herself with the Japanese Red Cross...
Then, in 1912, his father, the Emperor Mutsuhito, died, and he became Tenno (Heavenly King) or Tenshl (Son of Heaven...
...Emperor's coronation was, however, delayed for three years while Japan mourned the death of his father. 'Not until Nov. 10, 1915 did he don the lacquered wooden crown of Japan and proclaim himself Tenno to his ancestors. At that time it was vigorously denied that he suffered from tuberculosis...
Crown Prince Hirohito was hastily appointed Regent in 1921 and the Emperor has since lived in retirement. The exact nature of his indisposition has never been officially admitted, but journalists have repeatedly cabled that he "has lost his mind," "is hopelessly incapacitated...