Word: hirohito
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Throngs of Japanese patriots surged excitedly about the great gates of the Imperial Akasaka Palace at Tokyo. Slowly the gates expanded, and amid much rat-tat-ting of drums the Imperial Mounted Guard prepared to ride forth, escorting the popular Prince Hirohito of Japan...
Last August a great sea turtle emerged upon the beach at Kamakura, famed site of the imperial villa of the Crown Prince Hirohito of Japan. Out rushed the imperial household, agog at this omen of good luck. When the turtle, having laid exactly 70 eggs, retired into the sea, it was bruited throughout Japan that the Crown Princess Nagako would be certain to give birth to a male heir. Then a pair of sacred cranes nested in a great pine tree almost at the imperial threshold, and this omen was thought to be so certain of fulfillment that the Japanese...
...crime to look upon him, so sacred was his person. With the Emperor Meiji, all that was changed and, for the first time in probably a thousand years, an Emperor spoke face to face with his subjects. Today, matters have progressed still farther and the Prince Regent, Hirohito, has gone far to democratize the Royal Family...
...Prince Hirohito, Regent of Japan, attended the Army maneuvers near Takama, caught cold. That was last 'November. Since then, the Prince's nose has 'been growing larger and larger...
Last year, when Prince Regent Hirohito opened the Imperial Diet, an attempt was made on his life (TIME, Jan. 7). This year, when the Prince was driven through the streets, the crowds were forced down the side streets and the Imperial automobile passed along comparatively deserted thoroughfares without any untoward accidents taking place. The route taken was different from that usually followed...