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Your statement that time in Japan is reckoned from the date of enthronement of Jimmu Tenno is correct, in that classical writings and historians refer to that date. But in their everyday life, the Japanese reckon time from the date of the enthronement of the Emperor who is on the throne at the time. Thus the World War began in the Third Year of Taisho (the present Emperor's father: 1912-26), and this letter would be dated 7-2-19, as being written in the seventh year of Showa (Righteousness, the title chosen by Emperor Hirohito for his reign...
Does the King-Emperor care whether oaths of fealty continue to be sworn to him by Irish Free State M. P.'s? Many a U. S. admirer of his Majesty is sure that he does not care a snap. Last week this U. S. opinion led Manhattan's tabloid Daily News to print a picture of His Majesty in full regalia with the caption...
...diet was formally opened at 11 a. m. next day by the Son of Heaven, Emperor Hirohito, and at once adjourned as the diet always does to permit political adjustments behind the scenes before Japan's elected Deputies again face the public...
...Cabinet last week was in a state bordering chaos. The Minister of Interior had resigned and such a squabble for his place ensued that Premier Ki Inukai was obliged to become temporarily his own Minister of Interior, was solemnly invested as such by the Sublime Emperor...
...Jewry occurred in the 2nd Century B.C., when John Hyrcanus, an early Maccabaean leader, in spite of protests from the rabbis, converted the idolatrous Idumeans. In 740 A.D. the Khazar dynasty in southern Russia, originally pagan, became Jewish. Their kingdom was wiped out in 1016. Aquila, supposedly related to Emperor Hadrian, became a Jew, translated the Old Testament into Greek. A contemporary convert is French, Catholic-born Poet Aimé Palli...