Word: heaven
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Earnest, black-mustached, ivory-spectacled Hirohito is not Emperor of Japan by the grace of God. Rather his people conceive that their country is an Empire by His grace. Last week this extraordinary personage, adored as the "Son of Heaven," faced firmly one of the most involved and ominous crises since his reign began six years...
...November 1928 the Son of Heaven was not only enthroned as Japan's Emperor. He also ascended "The August High Seat" as the Shinto Pope. But neither as Pope nor as Emperor is Hirohito first in Japanese hearts. His unique position derives from the fact that Japanese believe they are all descended from the Sun Goddess but he in the direct line of 124 Emperors. Thus Japanese revere their Son of Heaven as the corporeal head and spiritual father of the national family. Their language abounds in such maxims as "Judges enforce the Law but the Emperor does Justice...
...Have we gone mad? Have we no idea that if we carry this period of unrest from one week to another, a panic will break loose which all the tariffs under heaven will not stem? Yet we sit here to take care of some little interest in this State or that instead of rising above petty sectionalism and acting for the nation...
...apparently made no effort to capture the nine killers of the Old Fox as they fled. Later 18 young army and navy men came voluntarily to police headquarters, dramatically gave themselves up but confessed nothing, were not subjected to a third-degree. At 2 a. m. the Son of Heaven received Finance Minister Korekiyo Takahashi, appointed him Acting Premier pending the convocation of the Diet...
What next? Merely the same old futile thing. As custom decrees, His Majesty sent for the Last of the Genro or Elder Statesmen, 83-year-old Prince Saionji. Once again he would advise the Son of Heaven whom to choose as Japan's next Premier. Meanwhile there were rumors (unconfirmed) of mutiny in the Japanese Army & Navy...