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Word: yoshihito (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...intricacies of warfare, proved a keen staff officer in Manchuria during the Russo-Japanese war. Thrice Minister of War, he was a valued member of the Supreme War Council when he died. Released from the Army for the State in 1925 by special edict of the late Emperor Yoshihito, General Tanaka devoted himself to the then important Seiyukai (Conservative) Party -reputedly oldest in Japan. He soon became its sagacious leader and led it to power once more as Prime Minister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Untimely Death | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

...predecessor, the present Dowager Empress Sadako, was the first consort of a Japanese Emperor to have her own "throne." She did not, howevet, occupy it when her husband, Emperor Yoshihito, was enthroned in 1915 because she was enceinte. Yoshihito Tenno, although greatly beloved, developed an impediment of the mind which caused his son (the present Tenno) to be made Regent in 1921, for Yoshihito who died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Emperor Enthroned | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

Prince Nobuhito Takamatsu, 23, son of the late Emperor of Japan, Yoshihito, and brother of the present Emperor, Hirohito, arrived at Honolulu with dirty hands, dirty face, dirty clothes. He explained to the reception committee that he had been directing the coaling of the cruiser Yaktimo; asked that no photographs be taken. Then said he: "Honolulu may be called a place where the hands of peace, stretched by Japan and the U. S., grasp each other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 24, 1928 | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

...partly because the court is still in mourning for the late Emperor Yoshihito, who died last December (TIME, Jan. 3), and partly because there was no disguising the disappointment of the Royal House and the nation in the birth of a second daughter, there will be no great, gay lantern parades, no dancing in the streets, no flowery songs and no flashing oratory, no processions, no fireworks. The new little Princess comes to the Flowery Kingdom unheralded, unsung. Such is the way of the Orient...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Girl | 9/19/1927 | See Source »

...this time his great abilities were so universally apparent that the late Emperor Yoshihito (1879-1927) issued a decree excepting him from the operation of the Japanese law which prudently debars army and navy men from entering politics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: 0 Mekake | 8/15/1927 | See Source »

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