Word: tokyo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year-old Emperor and Empress Nagako, 73, were lauded by a select audience of 7,500 in an hour-long ceremony at Tokyo's flower-bedecked Nihon Budokan (Martial Arts) Hall. In the half-century since the accession, Japan had been atom-bombed into defeat and had risen again to become one of the world's proud industrial powers. Hirohito, who renounced his divinity in the wake of Japan's World War II loss, is now the world's second-longest-reigning monarch. Swaziland's King Sobhuza II, who became King in 1921, has ruled...
Enlightened Peace. There were other ceremonies in honor of the event across Japan, but none were without political shadows. Socialist leaders boycotted the Tokyo ceremonies to protest the continuing Lockheed scandal; so did the Japanese Communists, who oppose the "Emperor system" itself. More than 30,000 police were on duty in Tokyo alone to control isolated leftist demonstrators, some of whom denounced Hirohito as a "war criminal...
...majority of Japanese, though, joined Premier Takeo Miki in offering gokurosama (special thanks) to the shy, scholarly Emperor for his long reign. In Tokyo, Hirohito responded by recalling the pleasant and sad memories of 50 years, mentioning especially his grief for "the great number of victims of the last war and their families...
Still, the Justice Department is expected to bring Congressmen and other officials before a federal grand jury, which could vote indictments if the case is strong enough. The most devastating witness against the bribetakers may turn out to be the chief bribegiver himself. Tongsun Park. Completing a trip to Tokyo, Paris and London, Park is expected to return soon to Washington, where, he has declared, he will cooperate fully with federal investigators...
...freighter to take delivery of their aircraft at the port of Hitachi. The Japanese coolly demanded that the Russians compensate them for facilities damaged when Belenko overran the runway on Hokkaido and for the expense of dismantling, crating and transporting the plane from Hyakuri airbase, 90 miles north of Tokyo, to Hitachi...