Word: tenno
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Progress loomed even in the perfunctory opening of the Imperial Diet, last week, by the ugly but sublime "Son of Heaven," His Majesty the Tenno (Emperor) Hirohito. All present knew that the present session is the final one of the last diet to be elected under a law which enfranchised only 3,000,000 property owning Japanese. The new law, to become operative when a new Diet is elected this spring, enfranchises 9,600,000 adult males. Hereafter the unenfranchised will consist of women and of those men who are either paupers or receive charitable aid from the state...
...than a tragedy to the Japanese royal house. Girls in the Orient have no social standing or importance of their own; their position is always derived from the male, either their father or the husband they marry. Therefore, a girl may not succeed to the august throne of Jimmu Tenno, occupied by the present dynasty for 2587 years...
Saito Keynotes. When newsgatherers were called into the presence of Viscount Saito, they found him amid the homage and the state which befits a man who has recently received the personal mandate of "The Son Of Heaven," the sublime Tenno (Emperor) Hirohito of Japan. Moreover Admiral Saito is now Governor-General of Korea-a post of almost vice-regal dignity. This very rich, potent and shrewd old man read a statement keynoting on two vital points...
...known, none have ever dared give an hypodermic injection to a Tenno of Japan; but last week despatches told the epic circumstances under which an injection was administered to the late Tenno Yoshihito during his last illness (TiME, Jan. 3 et ante...
...Imperial Government completed triumphantly last week a fortnight of incessant labors to alleviate the Japanese panic (TIME, April 18 et seq.). Since extraordinary legislation seemed requisite, His Imperial Majesty Tenno Hirohito convoked in haste the first Parliament which he has opened since his ascension to the throne (TIME, Jan. 3). Bills were rushed through and signed by the Tenno, authorizing the Bank of Japan to extend swift aid to banks threatened with a "run." Finally, the new Premier, Baron Tanaka, secured the appointment of Junnosuke Inouye (perhaps the most internationally prominent Japanese banker) as Governor of the Bank of Japan...