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...have ... to proceed unflinchingly toward elimination of misguided practices of the past. . . . The ties between us and our people ... do not depend upon mere legends and myths. They are not predicated on the false conception that the Emperor is divine and that the Japanese people are superior to other races and fated to rule the world. . . . The Emperor is not a living...
Thus, in the 18th year of the Era of Enlightened Peace, an ideological hara-kiri was committed on the anachronistic body of Shintoism. For Japan and all the Far East the consequences of Emperor Hirohito's proclamation might well be profound...
...Throne. With this anachronism blasted, the building of a new Japan could proceed with some chance of success. When and if the Japanese revise their constitution, they will not stumble over Article III, which says that "the Emperor is sacred and inviolable." In denying his godhead, Hirohito appeared to be making a very human effort to lead the way in constitution revision...
...first time, the Son of Heaven held a press conference. Strolling the palace grounds, he met (by carefully arranged coincidence) six aging Japanese newsmen who had "covered" the Imperial household for a decade, with never an audience. They bowed low. Asked the Emperor: Did the newsmen have enough to eat? Had they been bombed out? Then, under strict orders to ask no questions and to write no stories, the newsmen bowed again. The press conference was ended...
Montezuma, Aztec Emperor of Mexico, is said to have sighed: "The Christians must have a strange disease which only gold can cure." Most jewelry from the era before Columbus went to cure that disease-nearly all of it melted down for shipment to Spain as bullion. The few surviving objects were mostly buried deep in ancient tombs. Last week Mexico's Institute of Anthropology and History announced the discovery of 200 prehistoric gold ornaments in Oaxaca. In Brooklyn, the museum of art opened a small, comprehensive show of pre-Columbian gold, silver and jade from the Americas...