Word: tenno
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tenno (Emperor) of Japan is held sacred and sublime, a being directly descended from the Sun Goddess, and himself divine. Who would dare to jab a hypodermic into the flesh of such a being...
Lightning Exchange. His Majesty, the newly ascended Tenno (Emperor) Hirohito, received last week the first resignation of a Cabinet during his reign (TIME, Jan. 3 et seq.), at 9:10 a. m. from the Imperial Chamberlain. By 11:00 a. m. newsboys were crying on the street that the new Premier was General Baron Guchi Tanaka, leader of the Seiyuka.* Thus New Japan, with her young athletic, enlightened Tenno and highspeed printing presses, kept the public waiting not over two hours for an exchange of government which in ancient days endured decorously and interminably. Japanese editors applauded the new Tenno...
Sword-Handy Premier. General Guchi Tanaka is a picturesque, opinionated, vigorous man of the sword who was allowed to enter politics from the Army by imperial decree of the late Tenno Yoshihito† He was born (1863) the third son of a servant attached to the great feudal lord Mori. His evident quickness and superiority of mind gained him the patronage of his lord and he was sent to the Military School, thereafter rising through the ranks until, in 1915, he was a Lieutenant General and Vice Chief of the General Staff...
...Chichibu, sporting heir-apparent to the throne, arrived in Tokyo last week. Popular, he was greeted by 10,000 marshalled school children. Respectful, he hurried to his mother, the Empress Dowager and his elder brother, the Emperor. Pious, he did worship at the casket of his father, the late Tenno Yoshihito...
...Imperial Majesty, Hirohito Tenno, the new Emperor of Japan (TIME, Jan. 3), held his first levee last week at Tokyo, and imperially proclaimed as follows...