Word: emperor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...each case, the appropriate official was following an ages-old tradition, of "taking responsibility" that has evolved from the Japanese family system. Even the nation is considered a family, headed by the Tennô or Emperor. If one member stains the family reputation, his relatives are expected to make a show of remorse and expiation. In Jerusalem, Japanese Ambassador Eiji Tokura appeared on television. "Dear citizens of Israel," he said in halting Hebrew, "it is my wish 40 express my sorrow and apologize for this terrible crime perpetrated by Japanese nationals." Then he burst into tears...
...Emperor Hirohito of Japan had never seen anything quite like it. Before him stood Seiji Ozawa, 36, peripatetic conductor of the Japan Philharmonic, the San Francisco Symphony, and next year the Boston Symphony-dressed in turtleneck shirt, black pants, beaded necklace and a pair of dark butterfly glasses (to conceal a bad case of hives). Ozawa accepted an award from the Japanese Academy of Arts, then turned to the Emperor and pleaded: "Your Majesty, please help the Japan Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra. My orchestra is on the verge of being driven out of existence because of financial difficulties." Before World...
...sober assessment of a crowded island nation that knows it can be wiped out by a couple of H-bombs on Tokyo and Osaka and is not about to pay the vast economic and political price for nuclear status symbols that have as much reality as the Emperor's new clothes...
...Emperor's Clothes...
President Johnson had the good sense to step down when it became clear that his policies had failed. President Nixon, however, is bent on pursuing a bloody dead end in Indochina, while insisting that the American people recognize the emperor's new clothes...