Word: kuni
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born. To Princess Shigeko (called Teru no Miya: Shining Highness) Higashi-Kuni, 23, eldest of Emperor Hirohito's six children, and Prince Morihiro Higashi-Kuni, 33, eldest son of Japan's surrender Premier, Prince Naruhiko Higashi-Kuni: their third child, second son (Hirohito's third grandchild); in the imperial household's private hospital, Tokyo. Weight: 7 lbs. 13.7 oz. Name: undisclosed...
...complex hierarchy of Japanese drama, the Kabuki (literally "type of theater"), originated by Folk Dancer O Kuni in 1603, comes closest to the western theater. Less formal than the classical Noh drama, its stages extend into the audience like burlesque runways. Actresses are rare in Kabuki, and Nizaemon was equally at home in both male and female parts. As the leading lady in Akoya he had to perform expertly on three difficult musical instruments. His interpretation of the murdered warrior in The Story of the Soga was second to none...
...this was too much for Premier Prince Naruhiko Higashi-Kuni's still-conservative surrender Cabinet. The Prince called on his cousin, the Emperor, and asked him to accept the Cabinet's resignation. Said Cousin Hirohito: "It is good and I accept...
Emperor Hirohito and his Government, headed by jut-jawed Premier Prince Naruhiko Higashi-Kuni, were serving the Allies but were understandably nervous. Neither American use of the Imperial institution, nor Japanese reverence for it, necessarily required the indefinite presence of Hirohito himself. Jap and U.S. thoughts alike were much upon Hirohito's son, eleven-year-old Prince Akihito, and the Emperor's frail younger brother, Prince Chichibu, the logical (but not inevitable) choice for regent...
...several strange interviews which Jap officials gave to the U.S. press last week, ferret-faced Jap Premier Higashi-Kuni plaintively begged "People of America, won't you forget Pearl Harbor...