Word: heaven
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Year ago when the Sublime Emperor Hirohito, "Son of Heaven," was enthroned, the occasion was felt to be of such enormous importance that all "special editions" were supervised as to content, advertising and correct use of English by minions of the Government. But last week appeared the ordinary annual Japan Today & Tomorrow, published yearly by Osaka Mainichi. First glance showed that it is back to normal. Advertisements withheld last year from the gaze of visitors to the Imperial Enthronement, blazoned forth again. For example, 16 firms touted their sake, and one brand of this potent rice wine slyly boasted...
Such advertisements socialite Japanese matrons have long been accustomed to read in magazines of the highest class? this one for example under the august directorship of a publisher honored time and again with decorations by the "Son of Heaven" himself, Mr. Hikoichi Motoyama, president of both the Osaka Mainichi and the world-famed Tokyo Nichi Nichi...
...whole career and the fruits thereof and the uses to which they have been put, the public may not know. But last week Inventor Edison and the public could read in the Nation (pinko-liberal weekly) a fantasy by James Rorty, Irish-American free lancer, entitled "The Inventor Enters Heaven," which took for its point of departure a ten-minute interval of darkness and silence all over the U. S. in tribute to a deceased Inventor whom none could fail to recognize...
...scene shifts to the gates of Heaven. "Something in the pyramidal, stepped-back style of the heavenly architecture struck the inventor as familiar. . . . Familiar, too, were the banners swung high above the streets of gold and bearing the inscription: 'Forward, Heaven. Business Is Good. Keep It Good...
Further excerpts: ". . . The old inventor had spread the tail of his frock coat like a sail and was in full flight toward the abyss of night. 'Do you mean to say,' shouted the saint as he caught up with him, 'that you actually don't want to enter heaven...