Word: imperiale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Imperial Palace, isolated in the city's heart behind its green moats and grey stone walls, was still standing-as were the Ministries of Trade and Education, the Police Headquarters, the U.S. Embassy and the Diet. The Foreign Office and the Navy Ministry were rubble.
First the Emperor himself formally notified the spirits enshrined in the three sanctuaries of the Imperial palace. Then Prince Kimiteru Sanjo, court ritualist, took a full day at the Ise shrine, notifying the spirits of the outer shrine in the morning, the inner shrine in the afternoon. Count Kinto Muromachi...
"The Japanese had been piped aboard four minutes before MacArthur made his appearance. The first aboard was the silk-hatted Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu, limping on his wooden leg, leaning on his cane and clutching at the ship's ropes as he pulled himself up the stairway. The...
Eichelberger, who as intelligence officer had many dealings with the Japs, blandly outwitted them, blocking them from taking over areas they wanted. For some Japanese reason, the Japs seemed to admire these efforts. At any rate, they decorated him with the Imperial Order of Meiji, the Order of the Sacred...
American reporters went into Tokyo ahead of the U.S. Army, simply taking a suburban train like thousands of other commuters. (Said an obliging fellow from the Jap Information Bureau: "When young gentlemen wish go Tokyo? Trains every half hour.") They dropped in at Domei, looked over the busy newsroom, were...