Word: miya
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born. To Princess Shigeko (called Teru no Miya: Shining Highness) Higashi-Kuni, 23, eldest of Emperor Hirohito's six children, and Prince Morihiro Higashi-Kuni, 33, eldest son of Japan's surrender Premier, Prince Naruhiko Higashi-Kuni: their third child, second son (Hirohito's third grandchild); in the imperial household's private hospital, Tokyo. Weight: 7 lbs. 13.7 oz. Name: undisclosed...
Last week Tsugu-no-Miya Akihito ("The Prince of the August Succession and Enlightened Benevolence") learned the name of his new tutor: Mrs. Elizabeth Gray Vining of Philadelphia, Pa. Twelve-year-old* Akihito will meet Mrs. Vining some time this fall when she flies to Japan for her first visit and a year's stay. She will be given a small salary, a house, a car and servants...
Akihito Tsugo-no-Miya, Hirohito's eldest son, went down to the shore for the summer. In beach robe and summer straw, running with his pooch, Jon, he looked about like any other Jap kid-except that he was a little young and soft for twelve...
...little truck with women as possible. Princes of Japan's Imperial House were traditionally removed at an early age from feminine influence-even their own mother's. But last week Emperor Hirohito looked around for an American schoolmarm to tutor twelve-year-old Tsugu-no-miya Akihito ("The Prince of the August Succession and Enlightened Benevolence"). Hirohito begged Dr. George D. 'Stoddard, head of the American Education Mission, to help him pick the right kind of U.S. woman...
Sirs: The news that Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado was called off for patriotic reasons surprised me mightily. In the first place it has no trace of Japanese or pseudo-Japanese music except the chorus Miya Sama, Miya Sama. ... In the second place, the whole opera is exceedingly offensive to all Japanese because of its flippant treatment of their divine Mikado. . . . So let's not deprive ourselves of some fine entertainment and a chance to insult the Japs. . . . J. C. THOMPSON Borinquen Field...