Word: rescript
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...donned the ritualistic orange raiment of his forebears. From Tokyo he rode in a crimson carriage to the old capital at Kyoto. There, in a confident, resonant voice, he read his imperial Rescript, announcing his ascension. Alone, save for two attendants, he appeared, once before midnight and once after, at the shrine of his ancestress the Sun Goddess and offered her a sacrifice of holy rice...
...Tokyo last week, Emperor Hirohito attended the opening of the 84th session of the Japanese Diet, listened to the reading of his imperial rescript. The message praised: 1) "The warriors who represent us"; 2) "Our subjects exerting their efforts in production"; 3) "The great undertaking in East Asia. . . ." It was the Son of Heaven's strongest endorsement of his war lords. In effect, he clothed them with imperial authority, sanctioned their actions...
...invited foreign diplomats, Government officials and wearers of Imperial decorations into the Imperial Park to contemplate his chrysanthemums, arranged in martial rows and patterns of incredible genus and color, arrayed in booths as mountains, cascades, rivers. In the Palace. Hirohito performed certain religious mysteries, and read aloud a poetic rescript. He climaxed the week by showing himself before the people...
...situation develops. Meanwhile he kept mum. Judging from the Japanese Episcopal Church's last two clashes with the Government, the outlook was none too bright. Last year the president of Episcopal St. Paul's University, Tokyo, was forced to resign because, in reading the hallowed Imperial rescript on education in chapel on a national holiday, he stood on the altar steps, below the lectern where the Bible is read, thus ranking the Mikado lower than...
...Diet, Japan's pretense at party-system democratic government which ever since the bloody "Young Officers' " revolution of 1932 has accomplished precisely nothing, convened in Tokyo. His Imperial Highness Emperor Hirohito read a classical rescript of welcome. Then, to everyone's surprise, 240 of the 466 members of the lower house of the Diet presented a resolution condemning the Cabinet of indecisive Premier Nobuyuki Abe, and asked it to resign. Then the Diet adjourned until...