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Show mOIIITO MIC1IINOMIYA, crown prince of Japan and heir to the throne of the empire, is visiting the Occident. lie will pass some time in Great Britain and visit parts of Europe. He will not visit the United States. His trip Us scheduled to last six months. This travel by the crown prince is unusual ;and important. It is the climax of an education which probably has no like in this age. For nearly 20 years the best miiuljOf Japan. have been concerned with his upbringing and training. . It is the iirst time that a Japanese emperor or an heir to the throne lias ever left Nippon. Its importance lies in the fact that its results cannot be foreseen, either upon Iliroiiito or upoji his nation. For example: Uirohito is educated and intelligent. But he knows the world outside of Japan ouly at secondhand, That outside world must be seen to be appreciated. What effect iWill this appreciation have upon the man when he shall come to rule over Japan? v To most of the Japanese their ruler is more than a mortal man, notwithstanding the government is a constitutional monarchy. Europe, just now, is an eloquent object lesson on the subject of the divine right of kings. Will Hirohito elect to rule as a man or as a god? An this is interesting because precedent has been abandoned in the case of this particular crown prince. He is the first of his kind to wear spectacles. He has worn glasses since childhood. When oculists prescribed lenses for biis eyes, there was no , near-sighte- d But precedent was made 'precedent. .then and there. ' The prince is making his journey 'aboard the old battleship Katori, accompanied by the Kashima, virtually a sister ship. Their displacement is 'about 16,000 tons each, and speed about 18 knots. Both are now obsolete as fighting ships. The commander of the small squadron s Vice Admiral Oguri, commander of the third fleet of Hhe Japanese navy. Hirohito was born in the thirty-fourt- h year of Mijl, that is, in the thirty-fourtyear of the reign of his 'grandfather, the emperor Mutsuhito. By our calendar the date of his birthday is April 29, 1901. Although from his birth it was expected that Prince Hirohito would one day become emperor, he ha3 been the heir apparent only for the last eight years. He was designated crown prince in August, 3912, a few days before his father, the Emperor Yoshihito, succeeded to the tlirone on the death of the Emperor Mutsuhito. A month after his designation as crown prince, this youthful emperor was gazetted an officer in both the army and the navy. At the age of eleven, Prince Hirohito became an ensign in the navy and a sublieutenant In both branches he In the army. was advanced a grade on his thirteenth birthday, and he became a captain in the army and a senior lieu inant in the navy in the fall .of 1916, when he was formally installed as crown prince with great ceremony. Today he wears the army uniform of a major and in the navy lie ranks as a lieutenant commander, having been advanced a notch in both services last h yea1'. For almost a year the crown prince lias been acting for his imperial father on most occasions of ceremony, ns the emperors declining health does notorpermit him to Attend to even the doiary court routine of receiving fordiplomats and attending state functions. Ambassadors and ministers from abroad now present their Credentials to this modest, almost shy, youth, who also presides at the big New Year receptions and , other imperial functions. Sometimes he is assisted by his mother, the empress, but usually he fulfills the duties of an emperor unassisted. Last fall he attended the annual grand maneuvers of the army in Kyushu and is said to have taken an active and intelligent interest in the mimic warfare. The poor health of the emperor is one of the chief Reasons given for the decision not to extend the princes present tour to the United States. His imperial majesty is believed to be suffering from an illness from which he is not expected to recover, and there is no knowing when Prince Hirohito may be called to mount the throne. There is a book much circulated among the young men of Japan The Making of a Crown entitled, which relates in naive detail Prince, the uneventful story of young Prince Hirohitos early years. When he was eight years old a separate dwelling, suited to the needs of a normal, growing boy, was built for him in the compound of the Ayoama palace, in which was the nursery in which he had spent most of the first eight years of his life. this simple dwelling Prince Hirohito spent the years of his youth in study and in games designed to build up his physique. As he- grew older he took to manlier sports, the athletic pastimes that have been a part of Japanese youth He was trained early in for ages. riding, and today sits his mount easily and gracefully. He became a swordsman, too, and handles the blade of a Japanese sword with skill. Although his slight frame prevented his engaging in more strenuous sports, he is a great devotee of sumo, the Japanese form of wrestling. Until about three years ago the prince attended the Peers "school, an academy in Tokyo for the youth of his attended classes He reguJapan. all of Ills scions mates, with larly princely and noble houses, riding each day three or four miles in a carriage from his palace. Until two years ago the prince had not ridden in an automobile, ns it was only, recently that the conservatism that had hedged the imperial family of Japan about for ages permitted the introduction of this twentieth century means of locomotion. Following the years at the Peers school came a course of study under a special corps of tutors In what Is called emperors studies, a phase of his education through which the prince is still passing. He completed the first part of his curriculum just a few days before he sailed for England, and the more advanced part will be continued during the voyage to Europe. For the last few years the man charged with the princes education has been no less a person than Admiral Count Togo, hero of the battle eign - - blue-bloode- d of the Sea of Japan. This grizzled old samurai, personification of the ideals of Bushido, commander of the victorious fleet in the only decisive major naval engagement "of the Twentieth century, has devplSL I' is whole attention of recent years to shaping the mind of his future emperor. Ilis title is lord tutor. Under him is a corps or learned and highly placed men, nearly all of them men of influence. The crown prince lives by a daily schedule quite Japanese in its simAt six oclock plicity- and severity. every morning, summer and winter, the imperial heir rises. His first waking act is to make obeisance to the east, in the direction of the palace in which his Imperial parents live. He then receives his attendants and attires himself, usually in a military uniform. Breakfast comes next, a meal in Occidental style, and after this he goes immediately into his study and begins the daily grind on his emIlis schedule rarely perors studies. at 7:30, He breakfasts varies. lunches at 11:45, and dines at 5:45. His bedtime hour would be as distasteful to the American youth as the Spartan six oclock at which he rises, for in summer Prince Hirohito turns in at eight oclock, just when the evening of the Occidental young blood is beginning, and in winter he calls it a day just half an hour eaiJier,' at 7 :30. The princes diet is half Oriental, half Occidental. The future empress of Japan has been selected. She is Princess Nagaka. As a child, according to the romance with which popular report has surrounded the future emperor, the prince often met the Princess Nagaka, whom he is to make ifte bride, soon after his return to Japan. An attachment is supposed to have started in childhood, to which the crown prince has held until now, although for years he has not seen his future consort. Two years ago the marriage of this young couple of the blood imperial was arranged, and not singg that time, nor. for some years before, have they hiet. , In the fall of 1919 it was arranged for 'Priiice Hirohito to meet his intended at the home of her father, Prince Kuni, but before the meeting could take place fire had dehouse stroyed the new foreign-styl- e which Prince Kuni had built in Tokyo and the meeting, was delayed. Now the prospective bride and bridegroom must wait until his grand tour is completed. Doubtless there are many hidden stories revolving about this marriage Certain it is that there has of state. been opposition to It. One story is that this visit to the Occident Is in fact for .the purpose of breaking off . the engagement. 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