Word: hirohito
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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April 29?Twenty-ninth birthday of Emperor Hirohito of Japan...
Sadly six years ago the present "Son of Heaven," athletic, scholarly Emperor Hirohito, stood on the ramparts of Tokyo's Imperial Palace and saw a third of the city burning up and shaking down. Nero would have enjoyed the sight, not so Hirohito. But last week his Majesty ascended the same eminence and had proper cause for imperial joy. The whole area of the "Great Fire" (see map) which accompanied the quake of 1924 has been substantially if not elegantly rebuilt...
Year ago when the Sublime Emperor Hirohito, "Son of Heaven," was enthroned, the occasion was felt to be of such enormous importance that all "special editions" were supervised as to content, advertising and correct use of English by minions of the Government. But last week appeared the ordinary annual Japan Today & Tomorrow, published yearly by Osaka Mainichi. First glance showed that it is back to normal. Advertisements withheld last year from the gaze of visitors to the Imperial Enthronement, blazoned forth again. For example, 16 firms touted their sake, and one brand of this potent rice wine slyly boasted...
Attended by his Grand Chamberlain and a suite of 200 nobles. His Majesty the Emperor Hirohito, bespectacled Son of Heaven, presided augustly last week at the official tabulation of 34,769 poems entered by Japanese throughout the world in the Imperial New Year's Poetry Competition. The set theme for contestants this year was: Rocks at the Ocean's Fringe. Last week, before the tabulation of poems could begin, a choir intoned five times the Sub lime Emperor's own treatment of the theme, lines which, needless to say, will not be judged. With his royal brush...
Married. Prince Takamatsu, 25, naval officer, sportsman, art connoisseur, younger brother of Emperor Hirohito of Japan; and Princess Kikuko Tokugama, 19; in Tokio...