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...Biologists, interested in the tiny marine organisms called ascidians, heard good news from Tokyo: this summer Emperor Hirohito will publish his second book on marine life, Ascidians of Sagami Bay, the result of four years' research and 20 years of specimen collecting in which he discov ered 21 new species. His first book. Opisthobranchia of Sagami, published four years ago, was a bestseller among marine biologists...
...Imperial Household Board in Tokyo released some New Year's poetry written by Emperor Hirohito. Samples...
Died. Prince Yasuhito Chichibu. 50, younger brother of Japan's Emperor Hirohito; of a liver ailment complicated by chronic pleurisy; in his villa at Kugenuma, Japan. The Oxford-educated prince was in ill health during most of World War II, sat it out with Tokyo's military garrison. At war's end Chichibu became Western-minded again, avidly read American comic strips ("Li'l Abner ... I can't understand...
...Nippon Times carried the first post-marriage interview with Princess Yori, daughter of Emperor Hirohito. The princess, recently married to a commoner whose business is farming, reported that she gets up at 6:30 in the morning to help her husband care for their 300 canaries, 50 dogs, nine cows, 40 pigs, nine goats and 1,000 chickens. As for the eggs, they are bringing premium prices in Tokyo. Reason: merchants plainly mark them as products from the princess' chickens...
Provoo tried, said other witnesses, to be even more Japanese than the Japanese themselves. They claimed that Provoo often said he hoped the Japanese would win the war and that he called Emperor Hirohito "the essence of divinity." Corporal Robert Brown testified that Provoo hit him in the face because he did not know how to cook tempura (Japanese fried fish or shrimps) and declared that "all American women on Corregidor should be turned over to the Japanese for immoral purposes." Once, said Brown, he followed Provoo to the top of a hill where Provoo, clad in a shroud...