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Emerging, the Grand Chamberlain announced that the name was indeed Akihito Tsugu no Miya. The Chief Ritualist departed with seemly haste to make this known to the Sun Goddess and other ancestors of the Imperial House. Not until 11 a. m. was the name entered in the register of the Imperial Household by the Minister of the Imperial Household. Not until it had been so entered was word flashed to Japanese cruisers in Tokyo bay to blaze away a 21 gun* salute while Tokyo sirens screamed and the whole metropolis joined in a thrice-repeated shout of Banzai...
Matter of complaint by Japanese is the habit foreign devils have of calling the Empire's Princes by whatever part of their name suits the foreigners' fancy. All Japanese Princes have given names ending in hito (benevolent male) and the no Miya with which they are all tagged means "Prince of." They are Prince of what comes before the no Miya, as Edward is Prince of Wales. Thus the babe christened last week Akihito Tsugu no Miya is "Aki the benevolent Male, Prince of Tsugu" Aki means "Enlightened." Tsugu identifies the babe as Crown Prince...
...Japan paid joyous homage, for the bridegroom is Yasuhito, Chichibu-No-Miya, 26,-Prince and heir-presumptive to the Throne;* and the bride is Setsuko Matsudaira, 19, daughter of popular Tsuneo Matsudaira, who was Japan's Ambassador at Washington until he went home for the Imperial Marriage...
Such a question, such a thought was no doubt remote from the blank and infant mind of Princess Sachiko Hisa-No-Miya of Japan last week. She died without having reached the age at which humans become articulate to others and probably before she became articulate to herself...
Engaged. His Imperial Highness Prince Yasuhito Chichibu-No-Miya, 25, of Japan, second son of the late Emperor Yohihito and heir presumptive of his brother Emperor Hirohito, 124th "Son of Heaven" (Tenno); to Setsu Matsudaira, 17, daughter of Tsuneo Matsudaira, Japanese Ambassador to the U. S. since March...