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...present government, meanwhile, was wrestling with some rare but pressing decisions. Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita, for example, must choose a name for the next imperial era. All official documents except passports are now dated by the era Showa (Enlightened Peace), which began the day Hirohito became Emperor in 1926. Although some critics call the convention a remnant of the dead imperial past, they don't wish to end it, only transfer to the people responsibility for choosing the new name...
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...
...Sasebo naval base on the southern island of Kyushu. But Japan has come a long way from 1960. There were some nasty-looking demonstrations in Tokyo and elsewhere, whipped up by the Socialists and Zengakuren, the far-left student organization. Cops banged heads as fluttering banners inveighed against Showa no kuro bune-the Black Ship of the Enlightened Peace Era. But the left-wingers were divided and the people generally unimpressed by scare slogans about the dangers of nuclear radiation. Most Japanese calmly watched the arrival of the submarine on television. Sasebo itself was so quiet that Seadragon...