Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-08
YOUTHFUL JAPANESE EMPEROR
IS HARD-WORKING EXECUTIVE
Hirohito Insists on Keeping
Busy Despite Concern of His
Advisers and FunCtionaries.
His Majesty Is Up at $50
O'Clock and Routine of Day
Leaves Little Leisure Time.
BY VICTOR EUBANK.

DL tACAOR EODAANAs
Associated Press Correspondent
TOXIC business men In Amer.
lea may be extremely busy but no more
so than Hirohito, the young Emperor
of Japan.
Supreme ruler Of more tim 10000
900 subjects, he has so little personal
leisure and works so hard upon his Dig
Job that 1t has become the concern
Of his governmental advisers and func-
tionaries But thus far no answer to
the problem has been forthcoming.
Hirohito insists upon keeping busy
every moment.
He is the l24th Emperor of Japan,
and, according to the belief OF MS
subjects, the lineal descendant OF
"Anlaterasu Omikami," the sun god
dess. creator of the Empire Of the Ris-
ing Sun.
In other words the Emperor is tradi-
tionally omnipotent. sacred and not an
ordinary mortal. But he is quite as
human as most of the other humans
of his empire. He eats, sleeps ano
breathes the same as anybody. he y
27 years old, has wife, the empress
Nagako, and child, the Princess 1eIu,
and has most OF the compiexes @i'o
Ideas OF the COutilOAt AA~ASS%A'
watched and Guarded.
But there is this difference, that
Hirohito's breathing. eating, sleeping
and all his activities are watched MIC
Guarded. For he Is the Emperor, ano
from an imperial line that Is the Old
est in the history of the world. helice
the majesty of his person Is the nrst
care of the Japanese. l..
Hirohito Is up every morning pc
tween 6 80 and Z O'Clock, IN the AKA
saka Palace which is his resioence
while the imperial palace Is peing re-
constructed. His first duty, AFTER MS
ablutions, is TO worship at the aitar %
his imperial ancestors. He IS uevout ~
this and never fails in the performance
~ the nrouer obeisance. Then he goes
IN The dining room and breakfasts with
fhe Empress~-the Japanese breakiass
of soup. cold eggs. pickles ana rice.
A domestic chat with the Empress
and then Hirohito wades into his news
, napers. not at the table. but IN nus
Study, where both foreign and Japanese
papers are ready for him. -,
He reads English and digestS new
York and London papers as well as tne
yernacular. He keeps Thoroughly
abreast of world affairs and modern
subjects. An hour or so OF TINS aiu
the Emperor plunges into other study
concentrating principally upon tne I'M,
| uerial house law. the constitution ana
! English
Takes English Lesson.
Two or three times each week Rear
| ADMIRAL Shiniiro Yamamoto, one OF the
| foremost English students OF the coun-
try, appears 10 give his ruler lesson III
On other days he has lectures on
| Japanese history and economies. FOR
these occasions the leading lignls Oh
the Imperial University are invited: he
| keeps on learning about the past OF hlS
country as well as its future possibilities.
In this he Is most interested, ana MS
instructors usually are subjected TO
pointed interrogatories.
| Luncheon at 80 with tho Empress,
and this time the dishes are western,
steak or chops and edibles that ne
| learned to like when he visited LONDON
as crown prince. Early afternoon, goli
or horseback riding to keep himself nj
| He has beautiful nine-hole course
| In the palace ground and flVe courses
| i'm all on his different estates. whether
| he ever threatens par there Ii no testi-
mony, 1t is very well To talk about the
ordinary goIIefS lulOhynCThSics, nab ous
side discussion ofsthe Emperors slices
hooks and divots Is taboo. But, as mas
been said, his majesty Is only human
which must apply to golf.
| Plays Tennis.
| He occasionally plays tennis, too, WITH
| the Empress, who is an unusually GOOD
player, but he likes horseback riding
| best OF ALL He has about two score OF
beautiful riding horses IN his stable
His favorite Is white stallion named
Fahuki, meaning Snow Drift, which
is as nearly human as horse can be
according to household informants
snow Drift has an especial compart-
ment In the royal stables, and they saS
that he and his royal master have a
perfect friendship.
All sorts Of governmental Affairs &C.
eupy most OF the rest Of the day, except
when he is able to steal of TO his
laboratory TO study biology. Here he has
specimens which. are collected for him
from all parts Of the world and the
assistance OF DR. HI. Hattori, the prin'
cipal biological auth fty Of the empire
Hirohito has the radio IN his palace
and the movies, too, when he wants