Word: emperor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Convoyed by a small motorcade, Emperor Hirohito's car moved through the streets of Tokyo. At the gates of the U.S. Embassy, U.S. guards presented arms. Two U.S. officers escorted him to the huge, dark-paneled, cream-trimmed living room, where General MacArthur was waiting. MacArthur, who wore a ribbonless shirt open at the throat, shook hands and said, "Good morning...
What about the Emperor...
...Emperor Hirohito and his Government, headed by jut-jawed Premier Prince Naruhiko Higashi-Kuni, were serving the Allies but were understandably nervous. Neither American use of the Imperial institution, nor Japanese reverence for it, necessarily required the indefinite presence of Hirohito himself. Jap and U.S. thoughts alike were much upon Hirohito's son, eleven-year-old Prince Akihito, and the Emperor's frail younger brother, Prince Chichibu, the logical (but not inevitable) choice for regent...
Reverence was also in short supply: the peeresses' school reported the theft of a silver ear picker used by the Emperor Komei and crested incense burners presented by the Empress Shoken...
...bamboo cage not wide or long enough to lie down in while they questioned, threatened and kicked him (they thought he could tell them where the medical college had hidden its famed archeological relic, the bones of Peiping Man, presumably so they could present them to the Emperor. Bowen did not know...