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...year-old Emperor and Empress Nagako, 73, were lauded by a select audience of 7,500 in an hour-long ceremony at Tokyo's flower-bedecked Nihon Budokan (Martial Arts) Hall. In the half-century since the accession, Japan had been atom-bombed into defeat and had risen again to become one of the world's proud industrial powers. Hirohito, who renounced his divinity in the wake of Japan's World War II loss, is now the world's second-longest-reigning monarch. Swaziland's King Sobhuza II, who became King in 1921, has ruled...
...directors seem intent on pandering to the yens of teen-agers with such potboiler adventures as Nihon Chimbotsu (Submersion of Japan) and with action comedies centering on everyday life like Turaku Yam (Truck Rascals). Another new trend is toward the realistic documentation of World War II. Advance into the Pacific made use of combat footage shot by both American and Japanese cameramen. Hero in the Sky, a film about one of Japan's greatest wartime aces, may end up violating the postwar taboo on celebrating Japanese feats...
...FOGG, Newly Re-created: Photographic Printing Processes Revived, through Dec. 2; Nihon Koten Bungei: The Courtly Tradition in Japanese Art and Literature, through...
...FOGG, Newly Re-created: Photographic Printing Processes Revived, through Dec. 2; Nihon Koten Bungei: The Courtly Tradition in Japanese Art and Literature, through...
...FOGG, Newly Re-created: Photographic Printing Processes Revived, through Dec. 2; Nihon Koten Bungei: The Courtly Tradition in Japanese Art and Literature, through...