Word: hirohito
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Opportunist. When the Japanese Army leaders, who have the ear of their Imperial Majesty Hirohito, cast the die for war in 1937, they thought it would all be over in a few months. They could make out a good case for their belief...
Because of the Son of Heaven's birthday (Hirohito was 38 last week) official Japan reserved comment on Senator Pittman's proposal, which would indeed be a one-two pair of punches to Japan's military economy. But the new direction of Japan's diplomacy was further clarified in a speech at Los Angeles last week by the man with whom Japan replaced dying Hirosi Saito last December...
...Poetry Bureau of the Imperial Household. Any Japanese subject may submit a poem of 31 syllables (called a tanka) on a given subject. This year's subject: ''The Morning Sun Shines on the Island." Normally about 17,000 subjects of His Imperial Majesty Emperor Hirohito submit a tanka, but the wartime verse boom more than doubled the usual number of contestants. This year's contestants numbered...
Last week dumpy, soft-looking little Emperor Hirohito sampled the warfare on which his soldiers in China are fed. For breakfast he and his wife squatted before a low table on which rested a bowl of boiled rice and barley, and side dishes of powdered bean paste and pickled radishes. At lunch the menu read: millet gruel, side dishes of bean noodles, pork, boiled spinach and salty pickled plums. That evening the Emperor and Empress dined on boiled rice and barley again, had side dishes of dried fish, carrots and boiled lotus roots. One day of warfare was enough...
...army got its own man the premiership. The Emperor gave the job to austere, fanatically patriotic, 73-year-old Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma. Recognized civilian leader of Japan's military-fascist front, since the army's uprising in February 1936 Baron Hiranuma has been president of Emperor Hirohito's Privy Council...