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Nowhere did the expected "pockets of resistance" develop. The Japs quit as unanimously as they had fought. Did they all suddenly realize the hopelessness of the struggle? Or all bow to the will of the Emperor? Or all share a hope of their power's revival? Anyway, they quit...
First the Emperor himself formally notified the spirits enshrined in the three sanctuaries of the Imperial palace. Then Prince Kimiteru Sanjo, court ritualist, took a full day at the Ise shrine, notifying the spirits of the outer shrine in the morning, the inner shrine in the afternoon. Count Kinto Muromachi passed the word to Hirohito's first Imperial ancestor, Jimmu, great-great-grandfather Ninko, greatgrandfather Komei and grandfather Meiji...
...treating of the Japanese Emperor, you persist in recognizing him as the religious head of his people. As a matter of fact, only about one-third of the Japanese are Shintoists, nearly all of the rest being Buddhists who do not recognize him as anything but their Emperor in whose name all Government affairs are transacted...
...TIME has correctly persisted in recognizing Emperor Hirohito as the official head of the state religion (Shinto...
...busy newsroom, were photographed chatting with the editors. A woman guide (born in California) was assigned to escort one group around. She said she wasn't Tokyo Rose: that was two other girls from Los Angeles. At the Imperial Palace one newsman got as far as the Emperor's foreign secretary, who told him politely that Hirohito was not yet accessible for interviews...