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...HIROHITO: EMPEROR OF JAPAN by Leonard Mosley. 371 pages. Prentice-Hall...
According to ancient doctrine, Hirohito is the 124th direct descendant of Amaterasu, the Sun Goddess. All his childhood was a drill in the warrior-centered Shinto religion. When he was eleven, his grandfather, the Emperor, died, and General Nogi, one of Hirohito's beloved tutors, gave him a final traumatic lesson in Shinto. After sitting with him for more than three hours and reviewing the boy's studies, the old general went home to his wife. First, the couple purified themselves in Shinto rites. Then the general took a dagger, dispatched his wife, and eviscerated himself...
...hour stay in Japan, Humphrey also managed to attend the U.S. embassy Christmas party, and spent "an exceedingly jovial" 45 minutes with Emperor Hirohito and Empress Nagako. Next stop was Manila, where Humphrey attended the inauguration of the Philippines' new President, Ferdinand E. Marcos (see THE WORLD). Later that day, Humphrey flew to Clark Air Force Base, the staging hospital for all U.S. casualties from Viet Nam, spent a somber, occasionally tearful hour visiting wounded G.I.s. After Manila, the Vice President spread good will in Taipei and Seoul before heading home to give Lyndon back his Air Travel card...
Born. To Crown Prince Akihito, 31, No. 1 son of Japan's Emperor Hirohito, and Princess Michiko, 31; their second child, second son; in Tokyo...
Strange are the powers of the inscrutable Occident and its music. Whenever Japan's scholarly Prince Mikasa, 49, youngest brother of Emperor Hirohito, hears the screechings of a U.S. hillbilly tune, he sheds his coat and happily stomps around like a Tennessee mountaineer. The prince did it twice on a private tour of the U.S.-once at the New York World's Fair, where he do-si-doed into a square-dance demonstration, again in Philadelphia when he overheard the Delaware Valley Square Dance Association holding a hoedown in the ballroom of his hotel. But at the mention...