SUN STREAK PROJECT 5179. VIEWER IDENTIFICATION: 025. WRV

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: STARGATE
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP96-00789R001401200002-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: November 4, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 17, 2000
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: September 29, 1988
• Content Type: REQ

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DATE OF SESSION: 28 SEPT 88 DATE OF REPORT: 29 SEPT 88
START: 1400 END: 1500
METHODOLOGY: WRV VIEWER IDENTIFICATION: 025
li:: .C; VIEWER TASKING: TO ACCESS AND DESCRIBE THE
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COMMENTS: IT TOOK QUITE AWHILE FOR THE VIEWER TO
0-N LINE HOWEVER, ONCE THIS WAS ACCOMPLISHED THE VIEWER
PROVIDED VERY GOOD INFORMATION. VIEWER WAS ABLE REPORT THAT
INDIVIDUAL WAS INVOLVED IN A WAR AND THAT THE U.S. WAS
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AD WHEN THE VIEWER WAS TRYING TO REPORT HIS TITLE,
TEtiS C! E R. N A N WERE REPORTED TO THE MONITOR.
::AS i,DI. TO REPORT TE NAME OF ERIN AND IN THE
TO G T iii IiSc , IT WAS DECIDED THAT MORE INFORMATION
i . O CAIN D iii ANOTH R SESSION.
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THIS INDIVIDUAL 13 A MAN. NE IS ^IERY AND OLD. HE WILL BE
REPLACED. HIS TITLE HAS T. E LETTERS U P E R I U M OR U R I P E
M. THIZ MAN LIVE" IN A BEAJTIFUL HOME WITH A GOOD VIEW. THE
COLOR YELLOW IS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS MAN. HIS COUNTRY IS ONE
LIKE THE OLYMPICS.
HE RULES OVER A COUNTRY.
THIS MAN WAS INVOLVED IN A WAR WITH THE U.S. THE U.S. WON
THE WAR. THERE WAS A RARE OCCURRENCE BECAUSE THERE WAS AN
INCUR.IOc O. ENTRANCE INTO THE J.S. GERMANY WAS INVOLVED IN THE
WAR. MAYBE WWII.
THIS MAN IS AN ::LIP. SOMETHING A30UT THE EYES. THIS MAN
IS A PIEMIE RE.
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could not visit Okinawa, where I had
a duty to perform."-Emperor Iliro-
hito, New Year `waka', 1988.
_1031Y-two years after the god
died, the man is dying, too.
The life of Emperor Hiro-
hito of Japan, the last sur-
viving national leader of World War
I and a "living god" for the first 20
cars of his reign, is drawing to an
nd, 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
or an intestinal obstruction a year
go (and had to cancel a scheduled
rip to Okinawa). He was once
anked right alongside Hitler and
'tussolini in Allied war propaganda,
ut in his later years it was difficult
envisage the shy emperor whose
'ain enthusiasm was marine biol-
y as a factor of any great impor-
nce in the world.
It is equally difficult to imagine
-own 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
ect on the collective emotional life
the Japanese.
There is no Japanese under 60
o can remember a time when Hi-
ito was not tin tlic throne: He
-ins the country's entire modern
Cory. When lit. tiime to the throne
1926,.Tapan ww; ,till the poverty-
icken but ferti, ic;isk determined
ierdevelolx.d tniittlr} of whose
abitants l utli :ti ti killing once
to that they Wn t "not natives,
not quit(, f itril=a, I fiber"
nd young 1t' . teas literally
od to mot,( J;itt.t>,i mw When an
rtunate polit?t=matt( misdirected
imperial ntrit,,i'crttlc- down an al-
he disembowulril ltiniself in pen-
e for his error. The emperor was
incarnation of the Japanese peo-
with absolutci atttl"tnt?ity, and no
'nary mortal c uld look at him.
here is still at #ttrat deal of dis-
about hint t.t,t.1, Hirohito per-
illy cxerr1is-1 l411 ititlhority, or
ing up tit t4'iti t 1 'tir II, but 15 Empero
Hi
r
rohito
s after to 't i iii y 111r, throne he
idedovet titt,illtii?t #ttl
ir
n
eco
p
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ing half of A;, only over a defeated and hungry
o
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p
p
ve ycarw edit i flail lie presided ulation huddled in its ruined cities.
(two of them devastated by atomic
-vynne. Dyer ' 0 columnist querors r
i
d
equ
re
him to r
enounce
d in London, l,'tti,'titttd. his godhood. In the 1947 constitu-.'
CPYRGHT
tion, he was no longer the god-kink,
but only "a symbol of the state and
the unity of the people"
TIUL uc as seen seen of the
emperor in the succeeding four dec-
ades - usually only a couple of puli-
In' itppcarances tt 1, < ? . , d hale 1
tti` the Imperial l it rn 1 it, It ?hvo.
symbol of continuitt with the i
ttunal past.
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