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       11 'S 014: 4CCE:,' AND DESCRIBE EMPEROR HIROHITO.
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       --i ' W-- WAS ABLE TO REPORT THAT THE MAN'S
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   THIS MAN IS HIGHLY PROTECTED. HE SUFFERS NOW AND IS
   ILL. THERE ARE VOT UME` OF INFORM= ON ON THIS INDIVIDUAL. HE
   WILL BE JUDGED AFTE171 H DEATH. !-T r, T C' VERY POWERFUL AND IN THE
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   FUTURE THERE WIL. BE A PROBTEM AFTER HIS ABSENCE. HIS HOME CAN
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   ALSO 3Z A' C"URCH. -AS --1IGZ. 41j.@ MAN IS ALSO A SOUAR.
   HE HA-' A GRAND NAME.
   W11EN 1-111-2 COUNTRY INVADED (THE U.S.?) IT WAS A GRAND
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   PERFORMAINCE AIND A TI-11f MAN WAS 014CE AN ENEMY OF THE
   U.S. -BU77 NOW HE ITS A FRIEND. HE BELIEVES IN PEACE AND FREEDOM
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OYRG@ HO
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ly I lvaPsru all
-.ould not visit Okinawa, WhOTe I had
duty to perform:'- Emperor Hiro-
dto, New Year'waka', 1988.
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orty-two years after the god
died, the man is dying, too..
The lifb of Emperor Hiro-
hito of Japan, the last sur-
7iving national leader of World War
I and a "living god" for the first 20
7cars of his reign, is drawing to an
!nd, and the Japanese are going to
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,et a new style of emperor.
Hirohito is 87, and has been in
@low decline since he had su
rgery
or an intestinal obstruction a year
igo (and had to cancel a scheduled
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rip to Okinawa), He was once
anked right alongside Hitler and
4ussolini in Allied war propaganda,
                                                    N,
ut in his later years it was difficult
     envisage the shy emperor whose
iain enthusiasm was marine biol
as a laclor of any great impor
 in tile wol Or
_e Id.
It is equally difficult to imagine, Mil
rown Prince Akihito as a mover and
ake
is best-known public
hievem!n. n 54 years of life has
2en to contribute a section ab ut,,
_)bies to a book on fish. Yet he N
iange of reign will have a pro o nd
-fecton the collective cmolio I ife
the Japanese.
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There is no Japanese undet
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o can remember a time when Hi- @R AP11
hito was not on flic lbrone: He
ans the country's entire modern
tory. When he vium, to thc throne
1926, Japan wafi @@Idl Ow poverty-
'icken but feroriow.ly dorrmined
derdeveloped comitty 44 whose
abitants Rudytird lopflog once
-ote that they were "not natives,
t not quite sahitispithri-,"
And young Iffioltllt@ v. o Itterally
od to most 3mliwi av. When an
fortunate policvninn nilvidirected
2 imperial matorcatle down an al- @Vffl.
he disembowch-d himmOr in pen-
-ce for his error The emperor was
incarnation of the JaWese peo- AM
with absolute itut hat ity, and no

Jina@y mortal could look at him.
dis-
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There is still
-1c about how 111to It I f1i oldio per-
jally exercisetl ,olfinrlty, or
t it to other lit-fqi1r, tit tho years
ding up to Win lit Witt It, but 15 Emperor Hkohito
rs after asccinfill" thr, Ill one he
3sided overa nillhol i tinpire con- only over a defeated and hungry pop- fion, he was no longe
Iling half of A klo ulation huddled in its ruined cities but only "a symbol o
Five years aftvj thfil fio presided (two of them devastated by atomic @he unity of the peopl
                         bombs) - and the American con- Not much has be(
 @Mperor in the succei
lwynne Dyer Is it rf,Iftninist querors required him-to renounce
ed in London, England, his godhood. In the 1947 constitu- 6des - usually only a
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the god-king, Iii avlwarances a y('111 lcl 1.@ilt
the state and )f i liv I niperial Palaet' I I j I j j [ t I i ,
." - yo lit, was always pi,c-j( it) it k i ho.
i seen of the micso consciousness 111k h 110M,
ling four dec- syniliol of continuity Nvillt the
@ouple of Pub- tional nast,