Transfusions for Emperor
NZPA-Reuter Tokyo Japan’s critically ill Emperor, Hirohito, continued to bleed internally yesterday and thousands of devoted subjects waited, in the rain outside the Imperial Palace for news of his condition. Court officials said doctors would give him further transfusions of blood and coagulants but refused to confirm or deny Japanese newspaper reports that he was suffering from cancer of the pancreas. The secretive imperial Household has not said what the Emperor’s ill-
ness is. On Saturday it - lodged a protest against two Japanese news organisations which had violated an unofficial taboo by speculating that he had cancer. The Emperor, who is 87, is known to have had eight blood transfusions since he began vomiting blood last Monday. It was not clear on yesterday if the world’s longest-reign-ing monarch was still conscious. Court officials told reporters the Emperor’s temperature had dropped to 36.8 deg. by 10 a.m. yesterday.
He had a fever of 39.2 on Saturday afternoon and a racing pulse. His pulse rate has also improved. Thousands of Japanese kept vigil outside the Imperial Palace yesterday for the man who until Japan’s defeat in 1945 was revered as a god. A newspaper survey showed that more than 60 per cent of the wellwishers were Japanese born after World War Two. Crown Prince Akihito, the Emperor’s heir and acting regent, visited his father yesterday morning.
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