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...took place less than four hours after his father's death, Akihito, 55, received the imperial and state seals and replicas of two of the imperial treasures that symbolize the throne. By legend, the actual treasures -- a mirror, a sword and a crescent-shaped jewel -- trace back to the Shinto sun goddess Amaterasu. The government chose a name for Emperor Akihito's reign: Heisei, the achievement of complete peace on earth and in the heavens...
...contradictory denials, and finally admitted that an aide had taken part in the Recruit offerings, using the Minister's name. Ironically, the fall of Miyazawa strengthened the political position of Takeshita, since the men had been rivals in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party. Five days later, Hisashi Shinto, chairman of the giant Nippon Telegraph and Telephone, stepped aside after conceding his involvement in the Recruit stock deal...
...turning into a Japanese version of Watergate. Since July, when the daily newspaper Asahi Shimbun accused 76 highly placed political and business leaders of unethical trading in shares of the real estate firm Recruit Cosmos, 20 people implicated in the scheme have given up their posts. Last week Hisashi Shinto, 78, chairman of the giant firm Nippon Telegraph & Telephone, resigned after admitting that his bank account contained $73,000 in profits from the Recruit deal. Just five days earlier, Finance Minister Keiichi Miyazawa had departed under a similar cloud...
...brutal occupation of their country, which took an estimated 20 million lives, before and during World War II. Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone thus touched a tender nerve last August when he became the first postwar Prime Minister to make an official visit to the Yasukuni Shrine, a Shinto holy place in Tokyo honoring Japanese war dead, including convicted criminals like Wartime Prime Minister Hideki Tojo. The Chinese reacted with denunciations of a new Japanese "militarism," and last month placard-waving students from Peking University mounted a protest demonstration...
...shrines stand a stone's throw from each other in Tokyo's Shibuya district. One looks toward the past; the other embodies the present. The first, the Meiji memorial, a Shinto edifice of Japanese cypress embellished with gilded copper, is dedicated to Emperor Hirohito's grandfather. The other, which glints a deep azure in the sun, is the modernistic steel-and-glass headquarters of NHK, Japan's public broadcasting system, symbol of a national obsession: television...