Word: nagako
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hour stay in Japan, Humphrey also managed to attend the U.S. embassy Christmas party, and spent "an exceedingly jovial" 45 minutes with Emperor Hirohito and Empress Nagako. Next stop was Manila, where Humphrey attended the inauguration of the Philippines' new President, Ferdinand E. Marcos (see THE WORLD). Later that day, Humphrey flew to Clark Air Force Base, the staging hospital for all U.S. casualties from Viet Nam, spent a somber, occasionally tearful hour visiting wounded G.I.s. After Manila, the Vice President spread good will in Taipei and Seoul before heading home to give Lyndon back his Air Travel card...
...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...
Married. Takako Suganomiya (meaning: noble, pure), Princess Suga, 21, jazz-loving daughter (youngest of five) of Japan's Emperor Hirohito; and Hisanaga Shimazu, 25, tall, thin, $50-a-month bank clerk; in a 20-minute Shinto ceremony in a Tokyo restaurant attended by Hirohito, Empress Nagako and Crown Prince Akihito, followed by a Western reception complete with cake and cutting...