Word: hirohito
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ship), stripped of her armament, but with the Imperial Standard (a gold chrysanthemum on a scarlet field) floating from her truck. Every man on every ship stood rigid at attention, for on the Hiyei's bridge was a tiny sacred figure, the owl-eyed Son of Heaven, Emperor Hirohito...
...habit is to keep the death of a national figure secret for hours or even days, the idea being that his successor can be quietly appointed by the Sublime Emperor in the interval, without too much influential squabbling or eruptions of popular unrest. One day last week studious Emperor Hirohito and shy Empress Nagako dispatched to mud-walled Changchun, the sleazy capital of their puppet state Manchukuo, a great ceremonial basket of fruit, traditional Japanese gift to the dying...
...Manchukuo's real ruler, not the puppet Henry Pu Yi "Last of the Manchus" but Field Marshal Nobuyoshi Muto, was already dead. Probably he was. Certainly he died "of jaundice with complications" (according to the Japanese War Office) before the imperial fruit arrived. In double-quick time Emperor Hirohito created the dead marshal posthumously a baron and named as his successor another member of the super-militaristic Satsuma faction which dominates the Japanese Army, grizzled old General Takashi Hishikari of the Supreme War Council...
...light sentence or none. As do all patriotic Japanese assassins and instigators of assassination, Priest Inouye paid stirring tribute to the Divine Emperor for whose greater glory the Blood Brotherhood struck. "The final decision on everything." he cried, "should be made by the Emperor."One decision unhappy Emperor Hirohito cannot make. The sex of his children continues obstinately female. Empress Nagako has been delivered of four girls and last week the court physicians pronounced her again with child. From now until next January, when her accouchement is expected, the worried Son of Heaven will be busy every day with tedious...
...last week while Mr. Cooper was on a steamer in the Red Sea. on his way around the world, Mr. Howard was rolling up to the Imperial Palace at Tokyo, in an automobile with U. S. Ambassador Grew. There he had an audience with His Imperial Majesty Hirohito, 124th Son of Heaven, Emperor of Japan...