Word: hirohito
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then Colonel McCormick gave a lecture to the Tokyo Correspondents' Club. Subject: the history of the Hudson's Bay Co. Before leaving Tokyo for home, he took a walk with Emperor Hirohito amid the 700-year-old dwarf trees in his garden. Reported the Colonel, whose occasional sarcasm and constant, majestic deadpan sometimes pass muster for a sense of humor: "The Emperor said he hoped in the future the relations between Japan and the U.S. would be as warm as they have been in the past...
...event that Hirohito-" Andrei snapped: "Veto, veto...
...Hirohito and his Empress Nagako got snapped prematurely as the Empress patted her husband's hair back for the photographer. Result: the least divine (and most ecstatic) picture...
...Hirohito visited the depths of a Japanese coal mine, discovered that the sweating miners, who ordinarily wear nothing but G-strings, had put on shorts in his honor...
Later in the discussion, the Emperor expressed a hope that the occupation would continue for a while. "You know," added Hirohito, "democracy is not a new idea in Japan. There are many references to it in the old books and in village practices...