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...successful trip meant an invitation to return next year. Park said that Harvard is also considering a trip to Hawaii and Japan within the next two years. But it is unlikely that the batmen will get an audience with Japanese Emperor Hirohito as they did with Pope Paul...
...boycott of parliament, which the other opposition parties joined, they forced Tanaka to drop a redistricting reform bill that would have virtually ensured the Liberal Democrats a permanent majority in parliament. They also played a major role in the political maneuvering that led to the embarrassing cancellation of Emperor Hirohito's planned state visit to the U.S. If Tanaka is forced by circumstance to resign as Premier before the completion of his three-year term, chances are that the Communists will be held chiefly responsible...
...would be followed by a similarly ceremonial journey to Japan by the U.S. President. Richard Nixon, who would very much like to be the first incumbent American head of state to visit Japan, sent Henry Kissinger to Tokyo last June with word that he would be happy to welcome Hirohito in the U.S. this fall. Last week, however, the Japanese Foreign Ministry regretfully announced that the imperial visit would have to be "postponed" -probably, it seemed, forever...
...public explanation was that Hirohito, whose October calendar is crowded with such events as a national athletic meet in Chiba prefecture and the 60th dedication of the Ise Shrine,* is simply too busy to make the trip this year. In fact, the imperial regrets were yet another sign of the internal political troubles besetting the eight-month-old Liberal Democratic regime headed by Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka...
...political tool of the government in power in violation of the constitution. Within Tanaka's own party, there was evidently trouble from former Premier Eisaku Sato. Sato reportedly had thought that he. rather than Foreign Minister Masayoshi Ohira, an old rival, should be accorded the honor of escorting Hirohito and the Empress Nagako to the U.S. Although Sato denied it, Japanese press reports maintained that, when he was turned down, the former Premier began stirring up doubts about the trip within the Imperial Household Agency, which manages Hirohito's official life with jealous zeal...