Word: hirohito
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three months ago the Son-of-Heaven, cloistered Emperor Hirohito, proclaimed a National Oil Business Law so bold and drastic that at first it was scarcely taken seriously outside Japan. Provisions: 1) foreign oil companies doing business in Japan must build additional storage tanks and keep always on hand a six-months' supply of petroleum in addition to their normal needs; 2) they are subject to quota restrictions on retail sales which thus far have been rigged to favor Japanese oil companies at the foreigners' expense; 3) the Government reserves the right "in case of emergency" to purchase...
...Tokyo, President-Emeritus Harry Augustus Garfield of Williams College had audience with Emperor Hirohito...
...Emperor Hirohito. Leaks indicated that Naval Tomcat Osumi demanded abrogation of the naval treaties at once by Japan, while Diplomatic Tomcat Hirota spat that it would be better to face the Great Powers with impossible demands and lead them into rejection of Japan's scheme, for which they must then take the blame...
Died. Admiral Heihachiro Togo, 86, Japan's "Nelson," highest ranking subject of Emperor Hirohito; of cancer of the throat; in Tokyo...
...months old, a little round buttonhead of a baby, swaddled and lying on a brocaded pillow in the arms of his nurse. In solemn procession, Prince, pillow and nurse went first to the Koreiden shrine, dedicated to the spirits of the 123 Emperors of Japan who ruled before Emperor Hirohito; then to the Shinden, where they honored the "So myriad" deities of Shintoism; finally to the Kashikodokoro, the shrine of the Sacred Mirror of the Sun Goddess Amaterasu, ancestress of the imperial family...