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...occupation and that Japan had no choice but to fight on. The debate continued in a Cabinet meeting that ran more than eight hours. At last, Suzuki told the deadlocked Cabinet that he would convene an Imperial Conference, a meeting at 11 p.m. that brought the Supreme Council before Emperor Hirohito...
...emperor and empress of Japan today began a quiet pilgrimage to Nagasaki and Hiroshima to pray for the families and victims of the atomic bombings. Because former Emperor Hirohito's wartime role remains controversial, Emperor Akihito (the late emperor's son) timed the journey to miss the bombing's actual 50th anniversary, on August 6th. In a statement, he said, "I hope the world deepens its understanding ofnuclear weapons,and I pray for the repose of their victims and for peace, so that humanity will never experience such a disaster again." The muted tone of the royal journey mirrors Japanese...
Milosevic: Bosnia and Herzegovina was illegally proclaimed as an independent state and recognized. That recognition was like when the Roman Emperor Caligula appointed his horse as a Senator: they recognized a state that never existed before. The Serbs there said, "We want to stay within Yugoslavia. We don't want to be second-class citizens." And then the conflicts were started by Muslims, no doubt. And the Serbs, in defending themselves, were always better fighters, no doubt. And they achieved results, no doubt. But please, we were insisting on peace. The international community gave premature recognition first of Slovenia...
...mystery. Classical ballet and the music of Tchaikovsky were, after all, their heritage. When a Nureyev or a Baryshnikov fled the country, people imagined that the Kirov was full of such melancholy geniuses. Now, with frequent touring, it is easy to decide for oneself the quality of the emperor's clothes...
...Shah is based on the story of the Moghul emperor, Shah Jahan, who built the Taj Mahal for his wife, Mumtaz. In the play, the emperor and his wife have been reincarnated into a pair of place monkeys named Mum and Shah, who do not realize who they...