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EMPERORS are popularly thought to dwell in gilded palaces, but one of the world's few surviving emperors has lived for the past 15 years in a concrete air-raid shelter. See FOREIGN NEWS, Emperor's Year...
...accidental glimpse of him. Now, wearing the embarrassed look of a man intruding, he visited every prefecture in the country, climbing down mine shafts, trudging through factories, talking to peasants in paddyfields. He won wide respect for continuing to live in a damp, one-story, concrete air-raid shelter on the palace grounds. "The people are suffering too from lack of housing," he declared. But when the occupation ended in 1952, the seven zealous chief court chamberlains again rang down the Chrysanthemum Curtain between the Emperor and his people. Only rarely was he allowed to leave the palace grounds...
...toward the monarchy, clamor just as loudly as conservatives for tickets to the Emperor's annual garden party. No outcry was raised at the spending of $600,000 last year to build a palace for Akihito and $500,000 this year to replace Hirohito's air-raid shelter at long last. By 1966 the Emperor will have a second $2,500,000 palace for official functions. The Diet will increase his personal budget from $140,000 to $168,000 this year. In reciprocal generosity, the Emperor plans to turn a third of his 275-acre grounds into...
...start, Kahn urges a civil defense program that would include 1) identification of existing buildings that could serve as fallout shelters in an emergency, 2) wide distribution of inexpensive radiation-meters, 3) training of civil defense cadres, and 4) research on shelter designs and on methods of counteracting radiation and its effects. Such a first-step program could be undertaken for $500 million (less than 1% of the current federal budget...
...last week civil war broke in the administrative capital of Vientiane, the City of Sandalwood. Tanks rolled through the streets firing in all directions. Mortar shells thudded down on hotels, embassies and shops. At a temple, 100 monks in saffron robes fluttered about like a flock of birds, seeking shelter behind big stone images of Buddha...