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...spiritual and temporal good flows from the Emperor. Even the greatest of all Japanese victories, the capture of Port Arthur by Admiral Togo (1905), was officially ascribed to "the virtue of the Emperor." Therefore last week when the people of Japan set about the funeral of the late Emperor Yoshihito (TIME, Jan. 3), they very properly proceeded as though they were escorting a god to his last rest. Expense. Four million yen ($2,000,000) was spent on the funeral. Pomp. Red and gold automobiles for members of the Imperial House, two special railway stations, innumerable hand-tooled pavilions...
While the people of Tokio, the capital of the Japanese Empire, were bowed in grief and thronging to the funeral of Yoshihito, the one hundred and twenty-third Emperor, 100 Japanese students of Greater Boston were gathered at a service in remembrance of the late ruler...
...sporting heir-apparent to the throne, arrived in Tokyo last week. Popular, he was greeted by 10,000 marshalled school children. Respectful, he hurried to his mother, the Empress Dowager and his elder brother, the Emperor. Pious, he did worship at the casket of his father, the late Tenno Yoshihito...
With the death of His Imperial Majesty Yoshihito Tenno (TIME, Jan. 3) there began last week the usual sacrifices of loyal subjects in his honor. Hundreds of young girls cut off their hair and burned it ceremoniously in the temples. Stalwart youths pierced veins and painted in blood devout ideographic prayers for the Tenno.* Finally Baron Mansasuke Ikeda, lifelong companion of the Tenno, set up a portrait of the "Heavenly King" in his house near Tokyo, cried, "I followed you in life, I follow you in death," and shot himself...
Died. His Imperial Majesty, Yoshihito Haru-no-miya, 47, 123rd Emperor of Japan; in Hayama, Japan; of pneumonia...