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WARNING NOTICE:
INTELLIGENCE SOURCES AND METHODS INVOLVED
PROJECT NUMBER :
5179
SESSION NUMBER:
01
DATE OF SESSION:
28 SEPT 88
DATE OF REPORT:
29 SEPT 88
START:
1400
END :
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METHODOLOGY :
WRV
VIEWER IDENTIFICATION: 025
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( S/NF /SK)
MISSION:
ACCESS AND DESCRIBE EMPEROR HIROHITO.
2.
( S/NF/SK)
VIEWER TASKING:
TO ACCESS AND DESCRIBE THE
NDIVIDUAL IN THE FOLDER.
3.
COMMENTS:
IT TOOK QUITE AWHILE FOR THE VIEWER TO
GET ON LINE HOWEVER, ONCE THIS WAS ACCOMPLISHED THE VIEWER
PROVIDED VERY GOOD INFORMATION. VIEWER WAS ABLE REPORT THAT
MAIS INDIVIDUAL WAS INVOLVED IN A WAR AND THAT THE U. S. WAS
RVADED.
WHEN THE VIEWER WAS TRYING TO REPORT HIS TITLE,
LETTERS E P E R M A N WERE REPORTED TO THE MONITOR.
WETHER ENDED UP REPORTING THE INDIVIDUAL AS A PRIEMIER.
WAS ABLE TO REPORT THE NAME OF ERIN AND IN THE
ARTICLE EDWIN REISCHAUER IS MENTIONED.
BECAUSE IT TOOK
AWHILE TO GET ON LINE, IT WAS DECIDED THAT MORE INFORMATION
COULD BE OBTAINED IN ANOTHER SESSION. NO INclemencias Notes.
4.
EVALUATION:
3
IANDLE VIA SKEET CHANNELS ONLY
"MINOFORN
.AECIFIED BY:
DIA (DT)
OSTFY :
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SUMMARY
WORKING PAPER
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THIS INDIVIDUAL IS A MAN.
HE IS FIERY AND OLD.
HE WILL BE
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REPLACED.
HIS TITLE HAS THE LETTERS U P E R I U M OR
URIPE
M.
THIS MAN LIVES IN A BEAUTIFUL HOME WITH A GOOD VIEW.
THE
COLOR YELLOW IS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS MAN.
HIS COUNTRY IS ONE
LIKE THE OLYMPICS.
HE RULES OVER A COUNTRY.
THIS MAN WAS INVOLVED IN A WAR WITH THE U. S.
THE U.S. WON
THE WAR.
THERE WAS A RARE OCCURRENCE BECAUSE THERE WAS AN
INCURSION OR ENTRANCE INTO THE U. S.
GERMANY WAS INVOLVED IN THE
WAR.
MAYBE WWII.
THIS MAN IS AN HEIR.
SOMETHING ABOUT THE EYES.
THIS MAN
IS A PREMIERE.
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could not visit Okinawa, where I had
a duty to perform." - Emperor Hiro:
hito, New Year 'waka', 1988.
F
orty-two years after the god
dicd, the man is dying, too.
The life of Emperor Hiro-
hito of Japan, the last sur-
viving national leader of World War
II and a "living god" for the first 20
ycars of his reign, is drawing to an
end, and the Japanese are going to
get a new style of emperor.
Hirohito is 87, and has been in
slow decline since he had surgery
for an intestinal obstruction a year
go (and had to cancel a scheduled
rip to Okinawa). He was once
anked right alongside Hitler and
Mussolini in Allied war propaganda,
ut in his later years it was difficult
envisage the shy emperor whose
iain enthusiasm was marine biol-
gy as a factor of any great impor-
ince in the world.
It is equally difficult to imagine
crown Prince Akihito as a mover and
haker: His best-known public
thievement in 54 years of life has
ben to contribute a section about
bbies to a book on fish. Yet the
ange of reign will have a profound
fect on the collective emotional life
the Japanese.
There is no Japanese under 60
ho can remember a time when Hi-
hito was not on the throne: He
ans the country's entire modern
story. When he came to the throne
1926, Japan was still the poverty-
icken but fert fondly determined
derdeveloped country of whose
abitants Rudyard Kipling once
ote that they were "not natives,
not quite andtailes rithor."
.
And young Mandet. was literally
od to most Jajtat to: When an
fortunate policeman misdirected
imperial motorcade down an al-
he disemboweled himself in pen-
e for his error. The emperor was
incarnation of the Japanese peo-
with absolute authority, and no
inary mortal could look at him.
'here is still a great deal of dis-
e about how fait L, Hirohito per-
ally exerciti Is authority, or
it to offud (wade, In the years
ing up to Winkl War II, but 15
's after uereading the throne he
sided over a mutluart empire con-
ing half of Asia
ve years after that he presided
vynne Dycr 1 @ columnist
d in London, England.
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Emperor Hirohito
only over a defeated and hungry pop-
ulation huddled in its ruined cities.
(two of them devastated by atomic
bombs) and the American con-
querors required him to renounce
his godhood. In the 1947 constitu -:
tion, he was no longer the god-king.
but only "a symbol of the state and
the unity of the people."
Not much has been seen of the
emperor in the succeeding four dec-
ades - usually only a couple of pub-
li appearances # the: we a balce
of the Imperial Pat i . in tokyo. A.
qd he was always pie . it in the Jaj
anese consciousness as a powerb
symbol of continuity with the if
Hunal past.
CPYRGHT
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