Word: nagako
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Born. To Empress Nagako of Japan and Emperor Hirohito, a son; in Tokyo...
...young matrons whom a Japanese would recognize by name are Mrs. John Jacob Astor 3rd and Countess (Barbara Hutton) Haugwitz. Last week Japanese politely welcomed announcements that both are with child. But wild was Japanese joy when the Imperial Household Ministry issued a proclamation that Her Majesty the Empress Nagako will be brought to bed next November for the sixth time...
Name in hand, the Grand Chamberlain passed into the bedchamber of Empress Nagako and exhibited it to her. He then laid the block of wood reverently in the Crown Prince's crib...
Born. To Emperor Hirohito and Empress Nagako of Japan; a first son, fifth child; in Tokyo...
...death of a national figure secret for hours or even days, the idea being that his successor can be quietly appointed by the Sublime Emperor in the interval, without too much influential squabbling or eruptions of popular unrest. One day last week studious Emperor Hirohito and shy Empress Nagako dispatched to mud-walled Changchun, the sleazy capital of their puppet state Manchukuo, a great ceremonial basket of fruit, traditional Japanese gift to the dying...