Word: emperors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Shintoism, one non-sectarian and ancillary to the State, the other sectarian and divided into 13 officially-recognized groups, plus many smaller, unofficial ones. Keynote of Shinto belief is to venerate the Sun Goddess, Great Ancestress of the Imperial House. To pray for the welfare of the Japanese Emperor is to pray for the welfare of the whole nation. Next thing is to seek Cleanliness and Purity (washing the hands and if possible rinsing the mouth before approaching a shrine) and to avoid the contamination of Death and Blood. Out of Shinto 95 years ago emerged Japan's Mary...
...determination to reform Japan remains unchanged!" cried Prisoner Eitan Goto passionately. "I am prepared to die seven times, but I will" bomb seven times, if necessary, until the country is purified. I regret I caused trouble for the Emperor and disturbed public opinion, but I am prepared to die. I ask to be punished according...
...Japanese habit is to keep the death of a national figure secret for hours or even days, the idea being that his successor can be quietly appointed by the Sublime Emperor in the interval, without too much influential squabbling or eruptions of popular unrest. One day last week studious Emperor Hirohito and shy Empress Nagako dispatched to mud-walled Changchun, the sleazy capital of their puppet state Manchukuo, a great ceremonial basket of fruit, traditional Japanese gift to the dying...
...that Manchukuo's real ruler, not the puppet Henry Pu Yi "Last of the Manchus" but Field Marshal Nobuyoshi Muto, was already dead. Probably he was. Certainly he died "of jaundice with complications" (according to the Japanese War Office) before the imperial fruit arrived. In double-quick time Emperor Hirohito created the dead marshal posthumously a baron and named as his successor another member of the super-militaristic Satsuma faction which dominates the Japanese Army, grizzled old General Takashi Hishikari of the Supreme War Council...
...feet tall, Japanese have long called Marshal Muto their "Silent Giant," thus paying homage to his clam-like taciturnity and titanic will. In Changchun he ruled, as General Hishikari will rule, with the titles of Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese Army in Manchukuo and Tokumei Zenken Taishi ("The Emperor's Private Ambassador...