Word: hirohito
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Rumors that Emperor Hirohito would soon step down from the throne were freely aired last week in the Japanese press. Said an Imperial Household spokesman: the stories were nonsense...
They were not nonsense: there was evident logic behind them. Even in his prewar and wartime effulgence, Hirohito was not worshiped as a personal god but as a symbol of the nation. Any other man (with a claim to descent from the sun goddess) would have served the purpose as well. But now, Hirohito is tarnished by his association with the malefactors who made the war and lost it. Hirohito's involvement will be highlighted shortly when Tojo and other top criminals receive their sentences...
...Hirohito, heretofore better known for his poetry, completed an 80-page, illustrated monograph on sea slugs...
Died. Admiral Baron Kantaro Suzuki, 80, Hirohito's Polonius and Premier on V-J day; of a liver ailment; in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. A cautious navyman, lie was hated as a "moderate" by the military jingoists, who left him for dead in the 1936 young-officer insurrection, hounded him into hiding after the 1945 surrender...
...Robbed: Hirohito & family. Somebody got into the palace grounds and made away with 15 white Leghorns that had been protégées of the Empress herself...