Word: imperiale
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Already bombed dozens of times, Tokyo ate bitterness and outrage last week as never before. In two attacks within 48 hours more than 1,000 B-29s sent fire crackling through the heart of the world's third largest city. And sacrilege upon sacrilege, Radio Tokyo gasped that "the...
The Imperial Palace, smack in Tokyo's center, was not officially a target but the 485 holy acres were in the target area and could not easily be avoided. A 70-mile ground wind, spreading the flames, apparently had even less respect for divine real estate.
Japan was appalled. By Tokyo's account, Premier Kantaro Suzuki "saw with his own eyes" how flames had hit the sanctified preserve, hastened to apologize to the Emperor for the "inexcusable outrage," then called an extraordinary meeting of the Cabinet and issued a "reverent statement relative to the burning...
* One and a half miles west of the Imperial Palace, Akasaka is known as the "Crown Prince's Palace."
Sometimes on his white stallion, Shira-yuki, or in his crimson Rolls-Royce, he passed in public parade across the moat around his castle. Almost always his subjects hailed him with traditional banzais and reverential bows. But in 1932 an unidentified assailant threw a bomb at the Emperor's...