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...what his palace staff unromantically described as a "routine prefectural tour," Japan's Emperor Hirohito took Empress Nagako back to volcano-surrounded Lake Inawashiro, where the pair spent their August 1924 honeymoon. Reveling in well-remembered sights, the Emperor solicitously helped his wife over craggy spots, won an affectionate smile by graciously passing on to her a bouquet of alpine flowers presented to him by a local botanist. Carried away by such uxorious behavior on the part of the man who once was a god, the chief Imperial chamberlain sighed sentimentally: "Just a sweet, middle-aged couple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 22, 1961 | 9/22/1961 | See Source »

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