Word: hirohito
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...four-day jumping the gun on World War I's armistice, and has sometimes looked funny trying to scoop his local reporters on fires and auto accidents, Roy Howard has scored high with such stories as his interviews with Russia's Stalin and Japan's Hirohito. An incurable romantic about newspapering, he now seemed to be seeing the war from a pretty special angle. He watched battle reports come in, wrote that it was "strongly suggestive of covering returns at police headquarters on election night or collecting the details of a suburban disaster from the desk...
Premier Kantaro Suzuki held another emergency meeting with his Cabinet, conferred with Japan's elder statesmen, ex-Premiers Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma, Admiral Keisuke Okada, Prince Fumimaro Konoye, Koki Hirota, Generals Hideki Tojo and Kuniaki Koiso. He called on the Emperor Hirohito, bowed reverentially, and reported, according to Radio Tokyo, on a "general jurisdictional matter...
There is no precedent in modern Japanese history for direct personal rule by the Emperor. Parliament empowered Hirohito to rule with dictatorial powers last month. What drove Japanese leaders to take this step is not certain. It may be that there is agitation in Japan-unrest and longing for peace. To unite the people for a resistance at home, it may have been necessary to invoke the Emperor's personal prestige...
...this was a dangerous step for Japanese leaders to take, for it compromised the throne. Since the people have been told that the Emperor is ruling them personally, it would be difficult for Hirohito not to assume responsibility for defeat. Apparently the war lords were ready to drag the Emperor down with them. Hirohito would be finished, and so would the whole Imperial institution. The Japanese war lords could scarcely have reached this decision except from desperation...
wants to ride through Tokyo on Hirohito's white horse, got encouragement from the Reno Chamber of Commerce. The Chamber ordered a custom-built, silver-mounted saddle for the Admiral, solemnly asked Washington for his beam measurements. "I wouldn't know about the posterior," said his daughter, Mrs. Preston Lea Spruance, a distant cousin (by marriage) to Admiral Spruance, "Daddy is about 34 inches around the waist, and his hips aren't much larger. Neither mother nor I has ever measured...