Show Co I i MUCH EXPECTED fROM HIROHITO q 1 i Japanese a Regent Is Most Popular e 6 By CLARENCE DUBOSE u United Press Staff Correspondent oKIO TOKIO Jan 19 Japan Japan Is expecting big big biff things of Hirohito acting emperor of Dal Dai Nippon i Hirohito was appointed regent because be be- cause causo of the prolonged and serious sickness ss of his father the Emperor Ho lIe continues also to to retarn retain re- re re-I re tarn tain the title and position of crown prince although h his regency Is In effect ef effect ef- ef an assumption now of ot the position I tion he will fill till upon the death of ot YO Hirohito Is extremely popular n song all aU classes throughout Japan In addition to the veneration of ot the emperor and the Imperial family J Is an Ingrained and fundamental funda- funda mental feature of or the Japanese code Is the of something something some some- ome- ome thing more something no other ther ruler Japan has ever had It Is a sort of personal touch It combines fondness fondness fondness fond fond- ness and admiration for a likable In Individual Individual individual In- In with religious a arid and d patriotic devotion to a ruler they regard as divinely descended If It the average Japanese were to put the Idea Into American terms It would be about like this Were all aU for Hirohito simply because hes he's a alood good scout and snappy and up-to- up good lood ate rout and on his toes tip-toes all the time Our ancient reverence Is unchanged you ou tu understand but we vre feel that here's heres a pal as well as an Imperial r ruler ter r descended from the Gods The attitude Is something like that I of of-a of a proud family at college comI com- com I m watching the favorite son who c q has corralled all th the honors of Ills his class Gosh Theres There's no telling what such a smart emart boy can do the family opines Of Ot course theres there's a distinct conflict between this popular Japanese hopefulness hope hope- ulness of doing things and the circumscriptions of ot the Japanese Japanese Japanese Jap Jap- anese plan which divorces politics and government completely from the emperors emperor's emperors emperor's emperors emperor's em em- Jurisdiction It Isn't probable that the mass of the people have thought the thing out at all and concluded that they want the system system system I tem changed or that they do not want It changed They dont don't know i Just what they desire or expect Hirohito HIro Hiro- hito to do They Just have a liking for him from which Is born a blind sort of hunch that when he takes hold he Is going to put things ove over r. r i lIe Ire may The modernizing liberalIzing liberalizing liberalizing liberal liberal- izing progressive Influences and effects effects ef effects ef- ef of his European tour coupled with his own personal penchant for advancement may mean the modification modification cation of traditions and the beginning of a new order of things Or the traditions may be too strong after all Anyhow they've all got their i 1 eyes on Hirohito acting emperor and anda andja J Ja a likeable lad I |