Word: hirohito
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Akihito Tsugo-no-Miya, Hirohito's eldest son, went down to the shore for the summer. In beach robe and summer straw, running with his pooch, Jon, he looked about like any other Jap kid-except that he was a little young and soft for twelve...
...Because the Pacific war's urgency rushed the road project through, Nicaraguans call it Hirohito's Highway...
Prince Takahrto Mikasa, athletic youngest brother of Hirohito, toyed with a project he hoped to realize "as soon as it is permitted." Now 30 and a husband & father, the Prince wants to go to college...
Heaven's grandsons have always had as little truck with women as possible. Princes of Japan's Imperial House were traditionally removed at an early age from feminine influence-even their own mother's. But last week Emperor Hirohito looked around for an American schoolmarm to tutor twelve-year-old Tsugu-no-miya Akihito ("The Prince of the August Succession and Enlightened Benevolence"). Hirohito begged Dr. George D. 'Stoddard, head of the American Education Mission, to help him pick the right kind of U.S. woman...
Japan's imitative ability last week turned to politics. Emperor Hirohito and his Shidehara Cabinet, with General MacArthur's enthusiastic endorsement, offered the Japanese 16 closely typed pages of a new Constitution which forswears armies and war, guarantees civil rights, deprives the peerage of its privileges, promises the people an end of police tyranny. Now, with complete responsibility placed squarely on the Cabinet, and the Cabinet made fully answerable to the Diet, Japan would have a form of government more sensitive to democratic pressures...