Imperial Tourists

Imperial Tourists EMPEROR Hirohito and Empress Nagako of Japan flew on to Copenhagen after their meeting with President Nixon in Anchorage last week, and began their seven-nation good-will tour of Europe in Denmark. Then it was Wednesday, and that must have been Belgium, where Hirohito signed the Livre d'Or at the unknown soldier's monument in Brussels. Hirohito was handed a ritual sword with which, according to custom, visiting dignitaries fan the eternal flame. Obviously unsure what he was supposed to do with the thing, Hirohito gave a military salute instead. When he visited Waterloo, cheers of "Long live the Emperor!" echoed across the battlefield. After a gala banquet given by King Baudouin and Queen Fabiola, the slight, shy, 70-year-old Hirohito and his demure Empress flew on to Paris, where 50 years ago, as Crown Prince, he spent what he remembers as some of the happiest, freest days of his life.

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