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...sycophantic professor. Indeed the awful blasphemy was not at first perceived by Japanese educators and was taught for 29 years not only by Dr. Minobe but by other professors supervised by the Ministry of Education. Suddenly the mystic fanaticism, the blind patriotism and the excruciating reverence for the symbolic EMPEROR, in whom Japanese really worship Japan, exploded (TIME, March 18, 1935 et seq.), and Dr. Minobe was forced out of the Imperial University. He resigned from the House of Peers and vanished into his home outside which the Government stationed an unremitting police guard...
...campaign against the Government mainly with the charge that it had not sufficiently punished a man for writing that His Majesty is the supreme organ of the Japanese State was arrant bluff & nonsense-even in Japan. No Japanese can successfully reduce to writing what the status of the Emperor is, any more than a Christian can be precise on the status of God. As the votes were being counted last week, two Japanese armed with a letter apparently signed by a magistrate got past Dr. Minobe's police guards, chased the savant out of his house, put a bullet...
...Majesty, Emperor Hirohito, who knows that he is directly descended from the all-creating Sun Goddess as firmly as Japanese know anything, the Divine Sovereign had of course no concern with last week's election...
Savants of Japan trace Imperial Poem Reading through 1,000 years of vicissitudes fascinating to explore. The present Emperor is the 124th in direct line and the major crises of Imperial Poem Reading may be said to have been weathered in the reigns of the 62nd, the 83rd, the 103rd and the 122nd. It was Emperor Meiji, grandfather of the present Emperor, who dealt masterfully with the insurgence of Japanese commoners when they vigorously although reverently beseeched that Imperial Poem Reading should depart from the immemorial tradition that no poems were ever read to the Son of Heaven except those...
After meditating upon this for less than a fortnight, the exceedingly quick-minded and bold Emperor issued on Jan. 12, 1874 the Imperial Ordinance upon which is based today the treasured right of every Japanese, without distinction of race, creed or sex, to submit each year to the Poetry Bureau of the Imperial Household Ministry a tanka of 31 syllables. The subject of the nationwide competition this year was Kaijo Kumo Tooshi or "Clouds Far Over...