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Prince Yasuhito Chichibu-no-miya of Japan, heir presumptive* of a dynasty over 2,000 years older than that of Edward of Wales, arrived in Manhattan last week from his studies at Oxford, en route to the funeral† of his imperial father in Japan. Although Prince Chichi-bu is the sole member of the Japanese Imperial House ever to visit the U. S., and although his is the oldest reigning dynasty in the world, he went all but unnoticed...
...Because he is the brother next in line to the present Emperor, whose only child is a baby daughter (TIME, Dec. 14, 1925), Princess Teru-no-miya Shigeko...
...midnight hope was abandoned. At 1 a. m. Death was a matter of moments. At 1:25 a. m. His Imperial Majesty, Yoshihito Haru-no-miya, found rest at last...
Died. His Imperial Majesty, Yoshihito Haru-no-miya, 47, 123rd Emperor of Japan; in Hayama, Japan; of pneumonia...
Japanese priests later explained privately to Occidentals that to the Japanese the fish is an immemorial symbol of reproductiveness. By their gifts of fish the Japanese nobility thus conveyed to Princess Teru-No-Miya the most pious of good wishes and the most delicate of compliments...