Word: royals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...royal couple lives in the modest 15-room Fukiage Palace near the sumptuous $36.1 million official palace. Their compound includes a two-story lab in which the Emperor pursues his one consuming passion: marine biology. As the world's leading authority on hydrozoans (jellyfish and related creatures), he has written 16 books in the field...
Hirohito's other favorite subject is his 1921 voyage to Europe, which made him the first member of the Japanese royal family to set foot outside his homeland. During that trip the 20-year-old Crown...
...Emperor has shared his quiet life with Empress Nagako, 80, whom he married, by traditional arrangement, in 1924. A merry music lover who has enjoyed command performances by Mahalia Jackson and Marian Anderson, Nagako is also a distinguished painter. On walks, the royal couple like to collect plants, which, it is said, he studies and she sketches. Together they incarnate the classical Japanese ideal of mutual devotion...
...were forbidden to carry swords or even to wear their traditional topknots. When the samurai rose in revolt, they were suppressed by new armies of conscripts (whom the French were training). With conscription came the French system of compulsory universal education. British shipyards began building Japanese warships, and the Royal Navy trained Japanese seamen as officers...
...that Chinese and Hong Kong flags would fly together, that the Hong Kong dollar would remain an international currency, and that the corps of civil servants who administer the city would be retained. In the course of the informal talks, China has even indicated that Hong Kong's Royal Jockey Club could continue its horse races, although "Royal" would of course have to be dropped from the club's title in a socialist society. Chinese Leader Deng Xiaoping promised last month that "no official will be sent from Peking to supervise or administer Hong Kong...