Word: meiji
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Blinking in the unfamiliar glare of political freedom, the Japanese torpidly responded to their long-awaited, cherry-blossomed independence. But within three days, they were jarred fully awake. Most rudely jarred were some 300,000 workaday Japanese who poured past the willows and oaks of Tokyo's huge Meiji Park in a peaceful May Day demonstration. In matters of minutes, they were captives of the Communists...
...first time since ex-President Ulysses S. Grant visited Emperor Meiji in 1879, American guests were entertained in Tokyo's imperial household with top diplomatic honors. To celebrate the peace treaty, Emperor Hirohito invited General Matthew Ridgway and his wife to a royal luncheon, at which Empress Nagato set the conversational tone with a little story. The day the treaty was signed, a white crane had alighted in a treetop on the palace grounds. The Japanese took this, she said, as a good omen for peace...
...last week a fleet of white trucks loaded with 440 cops sped away from Tokyo's metropolitan police station. The arrival of the raiders at Red headquarters near Meiji Park sent men & women party members tumbling out of the doors to be collared outside. Inside, sitting calmly at a clean-topped desk, was Eiichi Iwata, a high party official. "I knew you were coming," he told the raiders. "I've developed a terrific sixth sense from long years of experience. The place is swept clean, but I had no time to prepare tea." Other raids-at a greengrocer...
...down on China by early October. The proposal of the supreme command was blunt and final; Hirohito's civilian ministers accepted it. Apparently only Hirohito himself felt called upon to make any further observations. He pulled out a poem that had been written by his grandfather, the Emperor Meiji, and read it aloud...
...Nothing Further Removed." In Journey to the Missouri, Author Kase, onetime foreign-office career man, tells his own version of the Japanese story which ended on the quarter-deck of the Big Mo. Sketching in events since the Meiji Restoration of 1868 and going through to V-J day, it is by all odds the fullest and most interesting account yet to come from the Japanese side...