The Tenno (Emperor) of Japan is held sacred and sublime, a being directly descended from the Sun Goddess, and himself divine. Who would dare to jab a hypodermic into the flesh of such a being?
So far as is known, none have ever dared give an hypodermic injection to a Tenno of Japan; but last week despatches told the epic circumstances under which an injection was administered to the late Tenno Yoshihito during his last illness (TiME, Jan. 3 et ante).
The Imperial physicians came in a body to the Empress Sadako, now the...
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