Word: shinto
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...Imperial appearance highlighted a day of strange contrasts. In the morning Hirohito, in an ancient Shinto ceremony at the palace shrine, reported the promulgation to the souls of his ancestors. Later he drove (in a handsome, black Mercedes-Benz with maroon trim) to the Diet to read his Imperial Rescript in high-pitched, colloquial Japanese. At the palace celebration, Hirohito emerged in an open horse-drawn carriage...
...were golden with ripening grain, Japanese entered enthusiastically last week into their Thanksgiving day, Kannamesai, which dates back to 28 B.C. Emperor Hirohito donned gaudy ceremonial robes, cleansed his hands with holy water and reported to his imperial ancestors on the new crop. Then he placed samples on the Shinto altar: a few fruits and vegetables, a bottle of sake, and a small box of new rice, harvested with his own hands...
...crimes trial in Tokyo, War Criminal Henry Pu-yi continued his testimony about his trials as No. 1 Japanese puppet (TIME, Aug. 19). In 1940, he reported, Emperor Hirohito had invited him to Tokyo, feted him, presented him with two gifts-a mirror and a sword (both sacred Shinto symbols),* and then sent him home to Shinto-ize Manchukuo. Said Pu-yi, who previously testified that the Japanese had murdered his wife: "It was my greatest humiliation...
...were Rodeo Day in the Texas Panhandle. They jammed movie houses to see special anniversary shows, stampeded in the city's makeshift department stores to take advantage of bargain sales in Hiroshima-made products. The day ended with a bangup ritual lantern dance on the grounds of a Shinto shrine...
...their physical manufacturing plant. They could recoup that-but they could not recoup Allied victory. First, they dissolved their holding company. But that was only a superficial shedding. The real core of Mitsui power and solidarity was the family constitution; each male Mitsui, on coming of age, swore sacred Shinto oaths to uphold the Mitsui constitution and further the family interest...