Word: nagako
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Imperial Tourists EMPEROR Hirohito and Empress Nagako of Japan flew on to Copenhagen after their meeting with President Nixon in Anchorage last week, and began their seven-nation good-will tour of Europe in Denmark. Then it was Wednesday, and that must have been Belgium, where Hirohito signed the Livre d'Or at the unknown soldier's monument in Brussels. Hirohito was handed a ritual sword with which, according to custom, visiting dignitaries fan the eternal flame. Obviously unsure what he was supposed to do with the thing, Hirohito gave a military salute instead. When he visited Waterloo...
...life. In 1921, when he was Crown Prince, Hirohito boarded the battleship Katori for a six-month tour of Europe. His jet flight this week will get him there in 15 hours, instead of the 65 days it took the lumbering Katori to reach England. Accompanied by the Empress Nagako, 68, who has never been abroad, Hirohito will visit seven European countries...
...subjects from a balcony of the Imperial Palace in the heart of Tokyo. Even these rare public appearances?on Jan. 2 and April 29, his birthday?have an atmosphere of isolation. Since 1969, when a deranged man fired a metal ball at them with a slingshot, Hirohito and Empress Nagako have been protected by a thick transparent shield. Last week, when four students invaded the palace grounds to protest the Emperor's trip to Europe, they had no idea where to locate him. When they hesitated, palace guards caught up with the four and arrested them...
...chamberlain brought news that Premier Eisaku Sato's Cabinet had approved Hirohito's plans for an 18-day European trip beginning next September-the first time a reigning Emperor will have left the country in the 2,631-year history of Japan's imperial household. Empress Nagako will go along on the visit to Copenhagen. Brussels, Paris, London, Amsterdam, Geneva and Bonn; it will be her first venture out of Japan. "I shall do my best to obtain a harvest of international friendship," said Hirohito...
...butchering, are Japan's closest equivalent to India's untouchables; there are 1,000,000 of them, living in slums, working as ragpickers or worse, and rarely able to marry outside their class. At the top is Emperor Hirohito, who lives serenely in Tokyo's Imperial Palace with Empress Nagako and devotes most of his time, as ever, to his studies in marine biology...