EMPEROR HIROHITO’S BIRTHDAY
TOKYO. April 29. Emperor Hirohito of Japan celebrated his forty-seventh birthday to-day. Crowds estimated at nearly 500,000 waited for hours to make a two-mile pilgrimage to the Imperial Palace grounds and bow in the direction of the palace. Hirohito made one brief personal appearance in the grounds to receive the banzais of newly-drafted policemen and about 20.000 others. All day kimono-clad Japanese joined the mileslong queues to sign the Imperial visitors’ book. Priests in flowing yellow robes moved among the crowd chanting prayers and beating drums to drive off evil snirits. After the palace pilgrimage thousands gathered to watch General Douglas MacArthur leave his headquarters.
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Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25483, 1 May 1948, Page 7
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