Word: hirohito
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hirohito, Son of Heaven and Scion of the Sun Goddess, last week denied his own identity...
Thus, in the 18th year of the Era of Enlightened Peace, an ideological hara-kiri was committed on the anachronistic body of Shintoism. For Japan and all the Far East the consequences of Emperor Hirohito's proclamation might well be profound...
...Allied order, Shintoism had been disclaimed as Japan's state religion. Hirohito now carried the process a revolutionary step farther. He threw overboard the whole fantastic doctrine that the Japanese people and their ruler are divine, and that they have a divine mission of world conquest. This doctrine, as zealously inculcated as Nazi ideas in Nazi Germany, had been the mainspring for half a century of Kamikaze fanaticism and grandiose visions...
...Emperor Hirohito, the living god and archpriest of Shinto, will soon embrace Christianity. This startling prediction was made last week by staid Professor Shigeru Nambara, president of Tokyo's Imperial University. Ever since their defeat, the Emperor and all his imperial household have been seriously studying Christian theology...
...Marquis Koichi Kido, Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal and Emperor Hirohito's closest adviser. Also waiting at his villa, he said: "I mean only to read books in my leisure. I have nothing else in my mind...