Word: hirohito
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though the time has passed when eyes were piously averted to avoid soiling Japan's Emperor Hirohito with a commoner's glance, the Emperor, 66, still enjoys nearly hermetic privacy within his wooded 200-acre estate in Tokyo. Now the hounds of modernism are baying over the palace grounds. A 36-story skyscraper is going up a mile from the palace, and court chamberlains have made the ghastly discovery that anyone with a pair of 10-power binoculars can peer straight into the Emperor's living quarters. A quick planting of large evergreens ought to solve that...
With Nagasaki flattened by an A-bomb (code-named "Fat Man"), Emperor Hirohito gathered his ministers in an underground shelter and asked them to sue for peace. Such intervention by the Emperor was extraordinary, and, since Hirohito was believed to be divine, his request was also presumably a commandment from heaven. But his military advisers resisted surrender; a group of fanatic staff officers made a futile attempt to seize the palace and overthrow the government when they learned of Hirohito's decision. These and other chaotic events leading up to Imperial Japan's capitulation are arranged with precision...
...agricultural prefecture of Kagawa into an architectural showplace and art center, and he has become ,known far and wide as the "design chiji [governor]." For the Takamatsu library, he brought in Yoshinobu Ashihara, architect for Japan's pavilion at Expo 67. Professor Junzo Yoshimura, original architect of Emperor Hirohito's new palace in Tokyo, managed the restoration of the exquisite Moon-Scooping Pavilion, built by Matsudaira...
Japan's busy automakers last week rolled out a pair of gifts. The first, personally delivered to Emperor Hirohito's palace by Nissan Motor Co. President Katsuji Kawamata, 62, was a 100-m.p.h. limousine-at last ending imperial dependence on foreign makes. The second was a gleaming batch of figures. They showed that in 1966 Japan had bumped Britain out of its No. 3 spot, moved in behind the U.S. and Germany in world car and truck production...
...chief criticisms of monarchy is that it is not only an anachronism but also a mighty expensive one. Japan's Emperor Hirohito, even though he formally declared himself mortal in 1946, draws a stipend of $3,000,000 a year, plus another $3,000,000 of taxpayers' funds to support an Imperial Household Agency of 1,200 officials. Inside the palace compound in Tokyo, a $38 million ceremonial hall is now abuilding for him, and a $27,000 Nissan Royal limousine has just been added to the royal fleet of three Rolls-Royces, a Daimler, a Cadillac...