Word: emperor
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...Japan itself, the brief meeting between Hirohito and Nixon will overshadow the rest of the itinerary. Never have a U.S. President and a Japanese Emperor met in the 117 years since Commodore Matthew Perry's fleet of U.S. "black ships" opened feudal Japan to the West. Dwight Eisenhower nearly made it to Japan in 1960, but massive demonstrations by anti-American students in Tokyo forced Ike to turn back. Initially, the plans for the Emperor's tour called for no presidential appearance at Anchorage. Tentatively, Mrs. Nixon or Julie and David Eisenhower were being considered to meet the royal couple...
...joke making the rounds in Washington, alluding to a recent movie title, has the Emperor asking: "Who is Richard Nixon and why is he doing those terrible things to my country...
TWICE a year, Emperor Hirohito of Japan greets his subjects from a balcony of the Imperial Palace in the heart of Tokyo. Even these rare public appearances?on Jan. 2 and April 29, his birthday?have an atmosphere of isolation. Since 1969, when a deranged man fired a metal ball at them with a slingshot, Hirohito and Empress Nagako have been protected by a thick transparent shield. Last week, when four students invaded the palace grounds to protest the Emperor's trip to Europe, they had no idea where to locate him. When they hesitated, palace guards caught up with...
...royal existence behind the moated walls of the 300-acre royal compound is well-cocooned and calm. Emperor and Empress rise early in their 15-room apartment in the small Fukiage Palace. Hirohito does not particularly enjoy coffee, but drinks it because he considers it an essential part of the Western breakfasts (toast, bacon and eggs or oatmeal) he has eaten since his first trip to Europe 50 years ago. After his meal, he is bowed out the door by the Empress and strolls to the new Imperial Palace, built in 1968 at a cost of $36 million to replace...
Hirohito is a TV watcher with a preference for soap operas, scientific programs and news. Each summer he dons waders and plants a rice crop in a special royal paddy field within the walls; in the fall, like other Japanese farmers, the Emperor harvests his rice. The Emperor's favorite pastime, pursued since childhood, is the study of marine biology. He spends two afternoons a week in his laboratory. On his periodic field trips he is so impatient to peer into the dredges to see what they have brought up from the sea bottom that he sometimes bumps heads with...