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...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...
...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...
...known, none have ever dared give an hypodermic injection to a Tenno of Japan; but last week despatches told the epic circumstances under which an injection was administered to the late Tenno Yoshihito during his last illness (TiME, Jan. 3 et ante...
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...
...imperial infant is a manchild, then Prince Chichibu may say farewell to Empire, order the packing of his baggage and return to Oxford in time for the autumn term. As everyone knows, he abandoned his studies, hurried from Oxford to Tokyo upon the death of his father, the Emperor Yoshihito (TIME...