Word: hirohito
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cultured, aristocratic, fragile and 83 years old, Prince Saionji conferred last week with half a hundred Japanese notables, his ancient brain cells turning over slowly what they said. He could advise 31-year-old Emperor Hirohito to appoint a political premier, which would further infuriate the fighting services and lower classes. He could advise the appointment of Japan's outstanding reactionary, Baron Hiranuma, who stood pledged virtually to sweep the Constitution aside and put down the dominance of politicians and the rich. Or was some third course possible...
...matter of routine the "Old Fox" was decorated posthumously by Emperor Hirohito with the Grand Cordon of the Rising Sun and Paulownia. His frail corpse, enclosed in the austere white pine coffin dictated by Japanese custom, lay in the hall of his official residence where he was shot down, while 500 officials, including representatives of all parties, paid their formal respects, pronounced fulsome eulogies. That evening the body was cremated. Next day part of the ashes were sent to Okayama, the rest interred at Tokyo...
...Excellency Lieut.-General Sadao Araki, Minister of War (after a 20-minute audience with the Son of Heaven. Emperor Hirohito): "So far as I can learn the events of today were designed to purify politics...
Small, weak but exceedingly loud bombs were hurled at the Bank of Japan, the Mitsubishi Bank, the residence of Emperor Hirohito's Grand Chamberlain Admiral Kantaro Suzuki, the Central Police Station opposite the Cherry Village Gate of the Imperial Palace. At the gate a Japanese reporter fell with a bullet in his foot. Other bombs were thrown at the residence of Count Nobuaki Makino, Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal and a con stant adviser to young Emperor Hirohito...
...Last week's ceremony was the first of its kind since 1906 when Emperor Hirohito's grandfather honored the victims of the Russo-Japanese War. The Tokyo War Office is still anxious to keep the full casualty list of the Shanghai gesture from the public; only those who died before Feb. 10 were honored. Another ceremony for several hundred more must soon take place...