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...Italy, thy mother, thy sovereign, thy goddess...
Ambassador Tsuneo Matsudaira and other prominent Japanese who went to meet the Prince shut their eyes to avoid witnessing the undignified spectacle of a descendant of the Sun Goddess slithering down a steep, icy gangplank. Assistant Secretary of State J. Butler Wright kept his eyes open, greeted Prince Chichibu, and saw that the revenue cutter on which he was taken off the Majestic borrowed a Japanese flag from the liner and ran it up while a salute of 21 guns boomed from the shore...
...Goddess. A Shinto archpriest, bearded and stately, heralded the Tenno's death to his ancestors at Tokyo. Locked within the Imperial Shrine, the archpriest communed with the 122 dead Emperors. When he emerged his face was ashen but beatified. Thousands who had gathered to pray believed that the archpriest might even have talked with the Sun Goddess from whom the Emperors are traditionally descended...
Meanwhile the Chief of Police of Tokyo, bowed by the scandal that a member of the Goddess-descended Imperial House had thus suffered indignity, offered his resignation. Prince Regent Hirohito, clement, refused to allow the Chief of Police to resign, directed moreover that the priest Hirayama be not prosecuted...
Official records describe His Imperial Majesty, the Emperor Yoshihito, as the lineal descendant of the first and prehistoric Emperor Jimmu of Japan (circa 660-585 B. C.). Though the Emperor Jimmu is still believed to be the fifth in descent from the Sun-Goddess, an error was discovered last week in the official genealogy which has previously set forth that the present Emperor was the 122nd in descent from Jimmu. It now appears that the Emperor Chokei (1368-1372 A. D.) was a real person, and not mythological as was previously supposed. He was inserted in the official records last...