Word: emperors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...young mustards were after still more exalted human game. Their ambition was to machine-gun none other than "The Last of the Genro," or long-venerated Elder Statesmen who were responsible with Japan's late, great Emperor Meiji for opening up the Empire, mechanizing it and making Japan a Great Power. The last of the Genro is 86-year-old Prince Kimmochi Saionji, outwardly a very gentle old man who asks thoughtful questions of the greatest living Japanese and never makes any comment or suggestions himself except to the Son of Heaven...
...Command of the Emperor." Not only last week but at all times the Imperial Palace of the Son of Heaven, standing in great wooded gardens encircled by high stone walls and a deep moat in Tokyo, is cut off from any newsy intercourse with the rest of the world. Into this sanctuary bolted the surviving members of the Japanese Cabinet and every subject of sufficient consequence to rate such proximity to the Son of Heaven...
...Majesty is a weak-eyed young man whom most Japanese reverence without knowing or asking whether Emperor Hirohito is either strong or clever. To such questions from a foreigner, Japanese of high station are apt to reply blandly, "The Emperor is young...
...Heaven is considered too sacred to be mentioned or invoked, but last week's emergency was clearly supreme and General Kashii rasped: "Orders to establish an emergency guard over conditions in Tokyo have been issued to the First Division. 'BY COMMAND OF THE EMPEROR, I have ordered mobilization of a portion of my troops at important points, the purpose of which is to maintain order in the capital and to protect important objects...
...simple Buddhist funeral was next held for "Premier Okada," who ventured out and actually attended it, masquerading as his brother-in-law, "Colonel Matsuo." The corpse was reverently interred, and the only thing which might have given the show away was that the Emperor, who by this time knew the amazing truth, did not send the customary condolences and imperial presents for the Dead. This omission went unnoticed...