Outside Hirohito

Wrote an unhappy Japanese to one of TIME'S foreign correspondents:

"Speaking flankly, the contents of [this] letter is a horrible confession of a man who seems to be in a chaotic state of mind. ... I wonder why I am such a deteriorated fellow. . . .

"The myth of unbroken dynasty is a matter of forced lie. Certain emperors were the son of his father-emperor's mistresses, as was 123rd emperor.* Nevertheless, emperor is a living God. Rather! Some of them were idiot and even sexually abnormal. Unbroken dynasty? Unbroken by emperor's concumbine! So the living God was born from a concumbine? Such is not a God.

"I have no space to illustrate how oddly emperor lives, owing to emperor-god theory. You may wonder why the emperor wears bad-tailored cloth. The reason the simplest one: since he is a living god, no one can touch, so the tailor judges his body by photo or otherwise. Indeed the emperor's tailor is one who has the most difficult task in the world. . . ."

*Yoshihito, father of the present Emperor Hirohito.

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