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...plot has to do with the gentle Esclarmonde's efforts to win her elusive beloved, the French knight Roland. Her plans are hampered by geography and a few other cumbersome details: the old Emperor, who abdicated in Esclarmonde's favor, conferred his wizardry powers upon her on condition that she remain veiled to all men until a suitable warrior consort is found...
...year-old Emperor and Empress Nagako, 73, were lauded by a select audience of 7,500 in an hour-long ceremony at Tokyo's flower-bedecked Nihon Budokan (Martial Arts) Hall. In the half-century since the accession, Japan had been atom-bombed into defeat and had risen again to become one of the world's proud industrial powers. Hirohito, who renounced his divinity in the wake of Japan's World War II loss, is now the world's second-longest-reigning monarch. Swaziland's King Sobhuza II, who became King in 1921, has ruled...
Enlightened Peace. There were other ceremonies in honor of the event across Japan, but none were without political shadows. Socialist leaders boycotted the Tokyo ceremonies to protest the continuing Lockheed scandal; so did the Japanese Communists, who oppose the "Emperor system" itself. More than 30,000 police were on duty in Tokyo alone to control isolated leftist demonstrators, some of whom denounced Hirohito as a "war criminal...
...majority of Japanese, though, joined Premier Takeo Miki in offering gokurosama (special thanks) to the shy, scholarly Emperor for his long reign. In Tokyo, Hirohito responded by recalling the pleasant and sad memories of 50 years, mentioning especially his grief for "the great number of victims of the last war and their families...
According to Japanese tradition, Hirohito's reign has been given its own descriptive name-showa, or enlightened peace. The Emperor predicted a bountiful future for his subjects if Japan continues to cooperate in establishing world peace. To judge by a recent survey, the Emperor system is likely to be part of that future for a long, long time. Fully 80% of the Japanese questioned approved of it; 10% of them even thought the imperial prerogatives should be increased...