Word: hirohito
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington's coastal White River valley, directors of an organization known as Remember Pearl Harbor League, Inc. ate a steak dinner, voted to boycott returning Japanese, listened with admiration to a member's opinion of Nisei in the U.S. Army: "They're all loyal to Hirohito...
...Emperor Hirohito of Japan, 44-year-old father of seven (five girls, two boys), was "especially pleased" to hear that his 19-year-old eldest daughter, Princess Shigeko Teru, was expecting a child-which would make Hirohito a grandfather...
...sunny Atlanta courtyard, men with only one arm and men on crutches throw baseballs at dummies of Hitler, Mussolini and Hirohito. In another, men with hooks for hands, in airplane splints and on crutches take a half-hour calisthenic drill : "Hup, hoop, heep, one; hup, hoop, heep, two. . . ." The men whistle when a girl goes by. In the wards, they hop around playing shuffleboard and indoor golf. Some of those still in bed play darts, watch movies. A Red Cross worker brings a birthday cake with candles to a smiling 24-year-old whose leg is fastened to a weight...
...Japs were grateful to Wang. Last week the Japanese Government ordered a state funeral for him. Emperor Hirohito posthumously conferred on Wang the Collar of the Chrysanthemum, Japan's highest award to the head of a foreign state. Adolf Hitler, or someone acting for him, cabled condolences to Madame Wang...
...Hirohito, the Son of Heaven himself, last week presented several tanks to his troops in northern Japan to use in case the U.S. attempted to land there. Said the tankers' commanding officer: "If the enemy approaches, we will destroy him on the beach and ease the mind of his Imperial Majesty...