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Three dark-suited men jumped from a car outside a Tokyo hospital last week and disappeared into the building. When they emerged, district prosecutors had arrested silver-haired Hisashi Shinto, 78, the powerful former chairman of Nippon Telegraph & Telephone. Within days, Takashi Kato, a former Vice Minister of Labor, was also taken into custody by authorities...
Somber drums banged, and flutes trilled a song of sadness. Shinto priests, accompanied by veiled artifacts too sacred to be seen, marched in solemn cadence. As 10,000 invited guests looked on, Emperor Akihito bowed. Facing the coffin of the man who was once revered by his people as a living divinity, Akihito intoned, "Filled with profound grief, we bid you farewell...
...Nine Shinto priests in white robes waved holy branches Thursday to purify the mausoleum in a hilly wooded area where Hirohito will be buried...
Dawn broke under gray skies this morning, and a light rain fell on the Imperial Palace as priests performed a private Shinto rite inside that began 13 hours of ceremonies...
Several of Japan's small but active radical leftist groups pledged to disrupt the ceremonies, including the Kakurokyo, or Revolutionary Workers' Association. This group claimed responsibility for an explosion several weeks ago at a Shinto shrine related to the emperor...