SUN STREAK PROJECT 5179. VIEWER IDENTIFICATION: 025. WRV

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: STARGATE
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP96-00789R001401200001-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: November 4, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 17, 2000
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: September 29, 1988
• Content Type: REQ

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AR GNU NOTICE , NTELLIGENCE SOURCES AND METHODS INVOLVED
PROJECT N1'JMBER: 5179
SESSION NUMBER: 02
DATE OF S' ".,ION: 29 SEPT 88 DATE OF REPORT: 29 SEPT 88
METHODOLOGY: WRV
VIEWER IDENTIFICATION: 025
T>% il5ZION: ACCE.:, ; AND DESCRIBE EMPEROR HIROHITO.
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SUMMARY
THIS MAN IS HIGHLY PROTECTED. HE SUFFERS NOW AND IS
ILL. THERE ARE VOLUMES OF INFORMATION ON THIS INDIVIDUAL. HE
WILL BE JUDGED AFTER: HIS DEATH. HE IS VERY POWERFUL AND IN THE
FUTURE THERE WILL BE A PROBLEM AFTER HIS ABSENCE. HIS HOME CAN
ALSO BS A CHURCH. HE HAS PR S'"TIG~. THIS SO~~',DAR.
~:.. 1 a 111J MAN N IS ALSO .J
HEN HIS COUNTRY INVADED (THE U.S.?) IT WAS A GRAND
PERFORMANCE AND A ISE. TI-11f MAN WAS ONCE AN ENEMY OF THE
U.S. BUT NOW HE IS A FRIEND. HE BELIEVES IN PEACE AND FREEDOM
NOW. THIS MAN Iti N IIIER.
1115 COUNTRY SELLS SLAVES.
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"Uncxpectedly I was taken ill, and
could not visit Okinawa, where I had
t duty to perform:'- Emperor I Jiro-
uto, New Year `wake', 1988.
~7"'1orty-two years after the god
died, the man is dying, too.
Th
life
e
of Emperor Hiro-
hito of Japan, the last sur-
iving national leader of World War
I and a "living god" for the first 20
ears of his reign, is drawing to an
'lid, and the Japanese are going to
et a new style of emperor.
Hirohito is 87, and has been in
low decline since he had surgery
r an intestinal obstruction a year
go (and had to cancel a scheduled
ip to Okinawa). He was once
anked right alongside Hitler and
4ussolini in Allied war propaganda,
ut in his later years it was difficult
envisage the shy emperor whose
lain enthusiasm was marine biol-
y as a factor of any great impor-
nce in the world.
It is equally difficult to imagine.
rown Prince Akihito as a mover and.
aker: His best-known public
hievement in 54 years of life has
en to contribute a section about,:
bies to a book on fish. Yet the
ange of reign will have a profound
feet on the collective cmol ional life
the Japanese.
There is no Japanese under 60
o can remember a time when Hi-
hito was not on the throne: He
ans the country's entire modern
story When he emilt' to th throne
1926, Japan was '4111 Ow poverty-
?icken but ferocintt'aiy- c!r-tt'cmined
derdeveloped cut,tttty of whose
iabitants Rudytird l iltlittg once
ote that they were Trot natives,
And young IIh olttti? '6 tt 1f1erally
od to most Ja,ltitric pc'. k0ten an
fortunate policenttut tnlstlirected
imperial motorrtttie down an al-
he disemboweled l,ltttot'lf in gen-
e for his error. The emperor was
incarnation of the Japanese peo-
with absolute huthotlty, and no
linary mortal could look at him.
There is still a g, *%q deal of dis-
e about how t,ittt it Itirttltito per-
,ally exercised l,tk t,olliority, or
t it to other pt'ttOr. tit tht= years
ding up to Wit hi tS',rt 1lt but 15
rs after asce ntfiit tit, fit 'une he
sided over a tulllir+t I to ilt'e con-
fling half of Asltt
Five years aftct tititl ftt ltresided
~wynne Dyer is ri t tiitmnist
ed in London, Enghttttf,
Emperor Hirohito
ulation huddled in its ruined -cities
(two of them devastated by atomic
bombs) - and the American con-
querors required him - to renounce
his godhood. In the 1947 constitu
but only "a symbol oflthe state and
the unity of the people"
Not much has beets seen of the
t. mperor in the succee I ing four dec-
ades - usually only a ouple of pub-
lit rualtc'arances a yt'til 1 ai
yct he was always prest ttt (,t r ltt' J
uut'se consciousness tea It powt.
symbol of continuity tititlt tits
titrnal oast.
CPYRGHT
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