Word: hirohito
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Engaged. His Imperial Highness Prince Yasuhito Chichibu-No-Miya, 25, of Japan, second son of the late Emperor Yohihito and heir presumptive of his brother Emperor Hirohito, 124th "Son of Heaven" (Tenno); to Setsu Matsudaira, 17, daughter of Tsuneo Matsudaira, Japanese Ambassador to the U. S. since March...
Progress loomed even in the perfunctory opening of the Imperial Diet, last week, by the ugly but sublime "Son of Heaven," His Majesty the Tenno (Emperor) Hirohito. All present knew that the present session is the final one of the last diet to be elected under a law which enfranchised only 3,000,000 property owning Japanese. The new law, to become operative when a new Diet is elected this spring, enfranchises 9,600,000 adult males. Hereafter the unenfranchised will consist of women and of those men who are either paupers or receive charitable aid from the state...
...wish! A wish!" cried a be-sandaled, be-kimonoed woman to His Imperial Majesty Emperor Hirohito as his automobile slowed up to enter the palace gates. Stalwart police seized her; the Emperor passed...
...Rakovsky, after a brief sojourn in Moscow, will proceed to Tokyo as Soviet Ambassador to Emperor Hirohito of Japan; for, being a friend of Lev Davidovitch (Leon) Trotzky and therefore identified with the opposition group, his boss, Foreign Commissar Jorge Tchitcherin (pronounced teachereen) prefers him out rather than in the country...
Upon a litter lay Empress Nagako. Erect and stern, Emperor Hirohito surveyed the scene before him. To one side court bards chanted a portion of the classics in a low tone. The great of the Empire surrounded the Imperial group. In it was Premier Güchi Tanaka, clad immaculately in Occidental formal attire. Hands placed together, he prayed, standing, eyes wide open, before a flag-adorned shrine...