Word: tokyo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fields of history and government, lectured at Columbia University as a professor of politics from 1907 to 1917. From 1917 to 1922 he was director of the Training School for Public Service in New York, and during 1922 held the same position at the Institute of Municipal Research in Tokyo. After the Japanese earthquake in 1923, he became adviser to viscount Goto, Japanese Minister of Home Affairs. In 1926 he was president of the American Political Science Association...
...1919?to Paris and the grave of her son; Nov. 1919?to Brazil; Jan. 1922?Antwerp, thence to South Africa; Dec. 1923?World Tour. (New York. Tokyo, Moscow, Berlin, Paris, Naples and home); Dec. 1924?Cuba: May 1925?Italy; Jan. 1926?Yucatan (to study Mayans); Jan. 1927?South America (Bolivia, Montevideo, Argentina, etc.); Jan. 1928? Panama. Salvador, Cuba, Guatemala; Aug. 1928 ?Europe; Jan. 1929?Switzerland...
...have been spent to enable His Majesty the Tenno Hirohito to assume, through weeks of gorgeous pageantry, his full imperial station (TIME, Nov. 12, 19). Though the Emperor of Japan has no crown, the pageant was equivalent to a coronation. A concluding event last week was a review in Tokyo Bay of the Japanese Grand Fleet by the Emperor and Empress. Conspicuously in the Imperial suite stood Admiral Togo, great, venerable, famed. Proudly the small spectacled Tenno, whom Japanese adore as the Son of Heaven, surveyed the long, grim, double file of his grey war boats. This...
...held at which five of the most noble ladies of Japan performed symbolic ritual dances which each Tenno gazes upon once. Followed an imperial pilgrimage by Emperor Hirohito and Empress Nagako to the tombs and shrines of His Majesty's 123 imperial ancestors. Finally Their Majesties returned to Tokyo. There a military pageant and the review of the Grand Fleet preceded a joyous celebration and chrysanthemum party. Now begins the divine reign of the Tenno Hirohito which has been named Showa, meaning "enlightenment...
...hundred and fifty represented Japan's foremost news combine, the Osaka & Tokyo Asahi. President Murayama of the Asahi issued in magazine form a Coronation Supplement, with a color portrait of the Emperor and Empress. The former is reproduced on TIME'S cover...