Akihito

WASHINGTON - Some conservative commentators seized on President Barack Obama's deep bow to Japan's Emperor Akihito over the weekend, accusing the U.S. commander in chief of groveling before a foreign leader. President Obama bows as he is...

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...will ever stop bowing a scraping to foreign leaders. A Of course White House aides say Obama did as he should in bowing to Emperor Akihito. An Obama official touched on the bow to the foreign leader saying, "I think that those who try to...

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...the World War I battlefield of Verdun in France. "He had taken to heart the importance of maintaining peace," Akihito said. "It is my perception that the events that led to war must have been contrary to what he would have wished. " The...

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...nearly a year after Hirohito's death on Jan. 7, 1989 because the nation was officially in mourning. The soft-spoken, graying Akihito said he is striving to live up to his postwar responsibilities as a national symbol. But he said he...

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Emperor Akihito and his wife celebrating 20 years on the throne Japan's Emperor Akihito has said his biggest worry is that young Japanese are forgetting their country's history. Speaking on the 20th anniversary of his accession to the...

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...colonialism -- for whitewashing the country's role in World War II in its school textbooks. Although Akihito has visited China, he has yet to travel to South Korea, largely because of lingering animosities over the war. Until Japan's...

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Navigation - link to other main sections from here Japan's Emperor Akihito attempts to cast his father in peace-loving light Emperor Akihito of Japan says that his father Hirohito - the wartime emperor - was a peace-loving man opposed...

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