Word: hirohito
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Last week was chrysanthemum time in Japan. The islands were almost as lovely as in the cherry-blossom season. The annual chrysanthemum season, coincident with the anniversary of the late Emperor Meiji's birthday, was celebrated all over Japan with especial excitement: Emperor Hirohito chose it to mark the 2,600th Anniversary of the fair-weather day when Jimmu took on power...
...Imperial Majesty invited foreign diplomats, Government officials and wearers of Imperial decorations into the Imperial Park to contemplate his chrysanthemums, arranged in martial rows and patterns of incredible genus and color, arrayed in booths as mountains, cascades, rivers. In the Palace. Hirohito performed certain religious mysteries, and read aloud a poetic rescript. He climaxed the week by showing himself before the people...
Showa is the name which Hirohito chose to typify his reign: it means Radiant Peace. Last week's celebration, coming at a time distinctly wanting in peace, gave Japan's men of influence occasion to consider the Japanese Empire carefully. They knew it as a sum total of many factors: a set of islands where 70,000,000 people live almost literally elbow to elbow; a low standard of living; the third biggest Navy in the world; a ragged but dogged Army (1,125,000 men in the field, 6,000,000 trained, partly trained and untrained eligibles...
...morning of Sept. 27, 1940 A.D., which corresponds to the 18th year of the Fascist Era and the 15th year of Showa (the reign of Japan's Emperor Hirohito), dawned clear and quiet in Berlin. There had been no air raid the night before and His Excellency Señor Don Ramón Serrano Suñer, Spain's Minister of Government and Falangist Party Leader, had had a good night's sleep. Don Ramón, who had been a visitor in Berlin for nearly three weeks, had, as usual, very little...
...without causing an international rumpus); 3) an amalgamation of all the Protestant sects in Japan. Significant was the proposed title for this new national body: the Genuine Japan Christian Church. Equally significant was the date which the Government set for the union: Oct. 17, the day on which Emperor Hirohito, himself considered a god by his subjects, dispatches a messenger to Ise to offer prayers at the shrine of his ancestress, Amaterasu, the Sun Goddess and founder of the Japanese Empire...