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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born. To Princess Shigeko (called Teru no Miya: Shining Highness) Higashi-Kuni, 23, eldest of Emperor Hirohito's six children, and Prince Morihiro Higashi-Kuni, 33, eldest son of Japan's surrender Premier, Prince Naruhiko Higashi-Kuni: their third child, second son (Hirohito's third grandchild); in the imperial household's private hospital, Tokyo. Weight: 7 lbs. 13.7 oz. Name: undisclosed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 8, 1949 | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

...this was too much for Premier Prince Naruhiko Higashi-Kuni's still-conservative surrender Cabinet. The Prince called on his cousin, the Emperor, and asked him to accept the Cabinet's resignation. Said Cousin Hirohito: "It is good and I accept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Revolution by Decree | 10/15/1945 | See Source »

Emperor Hirohito and his Government, headed by jut-jawed Premier Prince Naruhiko Higashi-Kuni, were serving the Allies but were understandably nervous. Neither American use of the Imperial institution, nor Japanese reverence for it, necessarily required the indefinite presence of Hirohito himself. Jap and U.S. thoughts alike were much upon Hirohito's son, eleven-year-old Prince Akihito, and the Emperor's frail younger brother, Prince Chichibu, the logical (but not inevitable) choice for regent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: About-Face | 10/1/1945 | See Source »

...several strange interviews which Jap officials gave to the U.S. press last week, ferret-faced Jap Premier Higashi-Kuni plaintively begged "People of America, won't you forget Pearl Harbor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Forget Pearl Harbor? | 9/24/1945 | See Source »

...Prince Higashi-Kuni pictured Japan as virtually prostrate. The U.S. air, sea and island offensive had paralyzed commerce, crippled railways, dislocated industry, agriculture and home life. Now, "in obedience to the Imperial proclamation, we should bear the unbearable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: The New D | 9/17/1945 | See Source »

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