Word: hirohito
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...most exclusive hotel," "Uncle Sam's guesthouse," and "the best small hotel in Washington," and rightly so. Since 1942, the Blair House has been the B&B of choice for former presidents, incoming Presidents, and major leaders from around the world, including Margaret Thatcher, Ariel Sharon and Emperor Hirohito of Japan. It's so exclusive that when the Obamas asked to move in a little early so their daughters could start school on Jan. 5, the President-elect and his wife were told they had to wait their turn. ('SORRY, WE'RE BOOKED,' WHITE HOUSE TELLS OBAMA...
...husband Philip in 1963 by Katharine Graham, were the best possible stewards of great journalism, and Kay and Oz took around the world the message that terrific reporting and writing mattered. (Any who heard it can recite by heart the story of the two of them meeting Emperor Hirohito of Japan.) But there was more to Oz than the inky-fingered trade. In 1976, after holding a variety of titles at the top of the masthead, he left journalism, becoming the founding chairman of the Citizens Committee for New York City, a pioneering nonprofit that encouraged voluntary efforts, and then...
...Japan's renewed sense of identity has also stoked a spiritual rediscovery. Under Shinto, the country's native religion, which blends a reverence for nature with Japan's founding myths, the Japanese Emperor is considered the direct descendant of the sun goddess Amaterasu; it was in Emperor Hirohito's sacred name that Japanese soldiers fought in World War II. When a battle-vanquished Hirohito announced in 1946 that he was not, in fact, a god in human form, some Japanese distanced themselves from the animist tradition. While shrines remained and festivals continued, Shinto was initially condemned by the occupying Americans...
Yukio Hattori, president of Tokyo-based Hattori Nutrition College and a leading food critic who admits a weakness for whale. Better known as "Doc" to Iron Chef fans, Hattori prefers a recipe from the Showa period (that is, the 1926-1989 reign of Emperor Hirohito). He says a "roast cut" steak is best prepared after a good marinating in grated white onion, which tenderizes the meat, and then pan-fried with a little soy sauce. Hattori says that the price of the most prized part of the whale - the tail meat - is on par with that of Kobe beef, roughly...
...first time in recent memory that political violence has struck Nagasaki, the second Japanese city on which the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb in 1945. In 1990, Itoh's predecessor, Hitoshi Motoshima, was shot by a member of a far-right-wing group after stating that Emperor Hirohito bore responsibility for Japan's actions in World War II. (Hirohito had been exempted from any charges at the Tokyo War Crimes trials, and his guilt - or innocence - remains highly controversial in Japan to this...