Word: showa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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According to Japanese tradition, Hirohito's reign has been given its own descriptive name-showa, or enlightened peace. The Emperor predicted a bountiful future for his subjects if Japan continues to cooperate in establishing world peace. To judge by a recent survey, the Emperor system is likely to be part of that future for a long, long time. Fully 80% of the Japanese questioned approved of it; 10% of them even thought the imperial prerogatives should be increased...
...spill occurred last week when the 237,698-ton supertanker Showa Maru ran aground at the eastern entrance to the Malacca Strait between Singapore and Malaysia on the north and Indonesia on the south. The impact tore open the ship's bottom, and an estimated 20,000 bbl. of oil leaked into the water. The five-square-mile slick that formed first threatened to smear the sparkling white beaches of Singapore's Sentosa Island, then began drifting westward toward more open water...
...course, referring to the war that nearly destroyed his island kingdom and made a mockery of the name given to his reign when it began in 1926: "Showa," or Enlightened Peace. A month after the war ended, Hirohito requested an audience with General Douglas MacArthur, commander of the Allied occupation, at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo. When the Emperor arrived, in top hat and cutaway, the general offered him a cigarette. Though he never smoked, Hirohito accepted it. MacArthur thought that the Emperor was afraid that he was about to be charged as a war criminal and was there...