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While Ford was touring the Midwest, law-enforcement authorities were trying to run down a spate of new reports about potential assassins. One mysterious phone call warned that three people were driving from Montreal in a blue station wagon to kill Ford and the visiting Emperor Hirohito (see page...
Walking slowly and carefully down the flight of steps from the Japan Air Lines DC-8, he twice waved graciously to the small crowd of welcomers. On his first visit to the U.S., at the age of 74, Emperor Hirohito of Japan was clearly determined to do everything right...
...Airplane. During World War II, Hirohito was regarded by Americans as the hated symbol of his country, an embodiment of treachery and aggression, but that enmity has long since faded into a kind of bemused nostalgia...
...Japan returned to prosperity, so did Hirohito. His principal palace, burned down during an American firebomb raid in 1945, was replaced by a new one in 1968 at the cost of $36 million. Maintenance of the imperial household these days costs the government $6.7 million a year-handsome remuneration for a man whose role is defined by the postwar constitution as a ceremonial "symbol of state...
Before he left on his historic journey to the U.S., Emperor Hirohito last week received TIME Bureau Chief William Stewart for an interview. The scene: the pink-carpeted Shakkyo-no-ma ("Stone-bridge") room in the Imperial Palace, which the Emperor uses as an audience chamber. His main points...