Word: hirohito
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pope Pius XI is not held more sanctified by Roman Catholics than is the Emperor Hirohito by pious Japanese. His Holiness claims to be no more than the divinely delegated and elected viceregent of Christ. His Majesty claims to be divinely begotten descendant of Japan's Sun Goddess, and is therefore sanctified in his own right...
They knew that the Sun Goddess, Amaterasu-O-Mikami, was arriving with all the 123 dead Emperors of Japan, her lineal descendants, to witness and to bless the coronation of the present Emperor, the Sublime Tenno Hirohito...
...Because Prince Chichibu is the next in line to Emperor Hirohito who has no male issue...
...fashioned way to the home of the bridegroom's parents. Further the Princess is not of imperial blood which formerly would have made her unfit for the Prince's hand. For these reasons and because they had married for love, like the reigning Emperor Hirohito (TIME, Feb. 4, 1924), the new Imperial couple symbolize the twilight end of ancient Japanese marriage customs, and point to the rising sun of modernity in Japan...
Prince Nobuhito Takamatsu, 23, son of the late Emperor of Japan, Yoshihito, and brother of the present Emperor, Hirohito, arrived at Honolulu with dirty hands, dirty face, dirty clothes. He explained to the reception committee that he had been directing the coaling of the cruiser Yaktimo; asked that no photographs be taken. Then said he: "Honolulu may be called a place where the hands of peace, stretched by Japan and the U. S., grasp each other...