Word: hibiya
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Bald, knotty Premier General Hideki Tojo rose before a mass meeting in Tokyo's miniature Hibiya Park and warned the Japanese against "intoxication by initial victories...
Another thing that aroused police suspicions was a note from Young to his wife asking if their young son had been to see the monkeys in the zoo. All over the East, Japanese are referred to as "monkeys." When Young explained that he meant the monkeys in the Hibiya Park, the police checked, found there really were some monkeys there. Writes Author Young: "I had not realized their sensitiveness on this anthropological point...
...Sumida River (1) and little Kanda River (2), his Majesty can state as an eyewitness are still flowing. Buds are sprouting in the "Cherry Blossom Parks": Shiba (3), Hibiya (4), Uyeno (5), and Hama Rikyu (6), which is every year the scene of the Imperial Cherry Blossom Garden Party. Different is Asakusa Park (7), a "Coney Island," incongruously surrounding the Sacred Temple of the Goddess of Mercy...