Word: tokyo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tokyo, a prince took a commoner for a bride. Popular as his choice was, it did not take a rude intrusion from an angry student in the street to demonstrate that the royal family still has more to do to establish its new place in the minds of a new generation of Japanese. See FOREIGN NEWS, The Prince Takes a Bride...
...holiday had been declared, amnesty had been granted to 100,000 prisoners, and an estimated 10,000 other young couples also got married. But there was at least one Japanese who resented the festive occasion. As the bridal entourage rolled down one of Tokyo's main streets, a 19-year-old boy threw a stone at the couple. When he missed, he tried to climb inside the carriage. As Michiko took refuge across Akihito's lap, two liveried footmen shoved the youth aside; half a dozen policemen knocked him to the ground and then led him away...
...Tokyo was quiet again. The royal couple ate an early supper, read the evening papers, watched themselves for a while on TV. Finally, the 80-year-old Chief Ritualist and his wife brought in the four silver trays with the 26 rice cakes that would remain on the bedroom altar for three days to ensure the early arrival of an heir. At 10 p.m., lights went out at the Eastern Palace...
Married. Crown Prince Akihito of Japan, 25; and Michiko Shoda, 24; in Tokyo (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...Chiharu Igaya, 27, Japan's Olympic skier (second in the slalom at Cortina in 1956), '57 graduate of Dartmouth College, who tied for the U.S. National Downhill championship in 1955, won the Canadian Slalom championship in 1957; and Takayo Ueno, 24, daughter of a retired sportswriter; in Tokyo...