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With the Washington ceremonies behind them, the imperial couple will fly to Cape Cod, where Hirohito, a respected marine biologist, will spend an afternoon at the famed Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Next stop: New York City. The Emperor and his wife will stay in the Waldorf-Astoria's eight-room presidential suite and hold court in a gold-screened "throne room" set up in the Waldorf s grand ballroom. Also on their calendar: a meeting with General Douglas MacArthur's widow Jean, who lives at the Waldorf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: The Emperor Finally Comes to Call | 10/6/1975 | See Source »

Early next week Hirohito and his wife will go to Chicago where they will lunch with the Windy City's Emperor Richard Daley, and then move on to Los Angeles. There they will begin a busy three-day California tour with a lunch given by Mayor Tom Bradley. A special guest, at Hirohito's personal request, will be John Wayne, whose old World War II movies with their caricatures of Japanese soldiers as villainous fanatics, were once campy favorites in Japan. A visit to Disneyland will be beamed by TV satellite to Japan. In San Francisco, the Emperor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: The Emperor Finally Comes to Call | 10/6/1975 | See Source »

...Japanese see it, the Emperor's U.S. trip is a triumph, a fitting way to round out a life that has been spent almost entirely in patriotic duty. Most Americans who will see Hirohito can scarcely imagine the rigors of office that the Emperor knew from infancy. From the start, he was raised in a stiff, isolated world ruled by court teachers who even refused him childhood games they considered unbecoming to a Son of Heaven. Only once, after returning from his euphoric tour of Europe in 1921, did Hirohito try to step out of his court-ordered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: The Emperor Finally Comes to Call | 10/6/1975 | See Source »

...much responsibility does Hirohito bear for Japan's entry into World War II? Hearing of pending war crimes trials, he once went to General MacArthur to plead that he alone should bear the blame for every act of war. More realistically, Hirohito reminds questioners these days that even in his prewar era of official divinity, he was a monarch hemmed in by a constitution, not to mention the military leaders who came to power in Japan after 1931. Even so, writes Author Frank Gibney in The Fragile Super Power (TIME, April 21), "He served as a symbol of militarism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: The Emperor Finally Comes to Call | 10/6/1975 | See Source »

Whatever his role, Hirohito ultimately recognized the futility of the war, even before the atomic bombs dropped in 1945. After the nuclear ultimatum, he counseled his people to "bear the unbearable" (surrender, that is). At the Allies' request, he publicly disowned the official myth that he was the divine descendant of the sun goddess Amaterasu, and he did not murmur when the conquerors stripped him of his $100 million fortune. When his people struggled against starvation early in the Occupation, he gave away American canned goods to old retainers and subsisted on brown rice and sweet potatoes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: The Emperor Finally Comes to Call | 10/6/1975 | See Source »

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