Word: emperor
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...force modeled on the U.S. Secret Service and made up of crack recruits trained in judo, marksmanship and detection of movement within a 90 vision field. The greatest threat of violence in recent years has come from new-left radicals, some 6,000 of whom have vowed to stop Emperor Hirohito from boarding his plane this week for a state visit to the U.S. Japanese officials will station 19,000 police at the airport to see that the departure goes as planned...
...Paris, he told an American newsman that he hoped a visit to the U.S. would only be a briefly "deferred pleasure." It turned out to be a long postponement. Soon after he returned home in 1921, Hirohito was declared Prince Regent for his deranged father; by 1926 he was Emperor, and a few years later Japan embarked on the ill-starred experiment in expansionism that finally ended with the nuclear holocausts...
...50th year of his reign, the Emperor still has that urge to travel. This week he and Empress Nagako, 72, finally begin a sentimental and ceremonial journey to the U.S. Their 13-day visit will be a carefully orchestrated imperial progress, part state occasion, part tourist rubbernecking. For ten months, ever since President Ford formally extended a renewed invitation to the Emperor during his visit to Japan last year, U.S. and Japanese diplomats and security officials have worked over travel and protocol details that now pack a book two inches thick. The imperial couple will have plenty of help keeping...
...world. Very few commoners, and even fewer foreigners, have entered the precincts within the moated palace in the center of Tokyo where it is kept. Although items from the imperial collections have gone on loan to Japanese museums, a representative selection has never been shown. But when Emperor Hirohito makes his visit to the U.S. next month, he will be the first Japanese-monarch to set foot on American soil; as a gesture of good will, 35 of his paintings, screens and objets d'art have been sent to precede him. The show opened last week at the Smithsonian...
...English simile, if Queen Elizabeth II authorized an exhibition from the royal collections, half made up of Renaissance drawings by Leonardo, Michelangelo and others, the rest of cairngorms, antlers and Landseer spaniels from Balmoral, the effect would be roughly the same. In Japan, of course, anything collected by the Emperor or his ancestors is of immediate interest, since he is (or was until the U.S. occupation) a god. Nevertheless, it is rare to encounter an object as preposterous in its Last-Supper-carved-on-a-peachstone virtuosity as the dancer in full samurai armor chiseled by Unno...