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...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...
With the Washington ceremonies behind them, the imperial couple will fly to Cape Cod, where Hirohito, a respected marine biologist, will spend an afternoon at the famed Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Next stop: New York City. The Emperor and his wife will stay in the Waldorf-Astoria's eight-room presidential suite and hold court in a gold-screened "throne room" set up in the Waldorf s grand ballroom. Also on their calendar: a meeting with General Douglas MacArthur's widow Jean, who lives at the Waldorf...
Early next week Hirohito and his wife will go to Chicago where they will lunch with the Windy City's Emperor Richard Daley, and then move on to Los Angeles. There they will begin a busy three-day California tour with a lunch given by Mayor Tom Bradley. A special guest, at Hirohito's personal request, will be John Wayne, whose old World War II movies with their caricatures of Japanese soldiers as villainous fanatics, were once campy favorites in Japan. A visit to Disneyland will be beamed by TV satellite to Japan. In San Francisco, the Emperor...
...plans for a tour of Pearl Harbor. To Americans, such a visit would only seem penitential, while" many Japanese still look on the Dec. 7, 1941 attack as a glorious victory in the lost war. But Japanese officials are apprehensive about the possibility of an overeffusive welcome for the Emperor by the 15,000 Japanese nationals and 208,000 Japanese Americans who live in Hawaii. They are particularly unsettled by the prospect of cheers of "Banzai!" as the imperial DC-8 lands at Honolulu's Hickam Air Force Base...