JAPAN’S CROWN PRINCE

Hokitika Guardian, 7 April 1921, Page 4

JAPAN’S CROWN PRI NCE

The arrival of the Crown Prince 11 in hiLo of Japan at Colombo, as reporte by cable last week, was apparently in

J ~csi. ;i . (• {>; tolll' nl' till' world wllivl according to Japanese |>iiju*i*s, is l ( include England and tin 1 ( untiiii'iiL and possibly the Foiled States. Opinion among Americans is that lie .ail 1,0 at somewhat of a disadvantage in visiting America. as in their phrase In will have ‘‘to go some' to equal the fay ourable impression created hy the Prince of Wales. Hirohito is twenty years old, and is spoken of hy English residents its “a thoroughly human sort of chit) fond of sports ami of good physique, thsinks to idle elforts of a corps of the greatest experts and specialists in Jiifian who were employed to map out a courso of physical training for him, and apparently to see tintlie carried it out. ft most have been rather it serious business, for we read that when the Crown Prince was learnig swimming “it was no uncommon sight to see a number of middle-aged men of high degree standing up to their waists in the sea, and holding a rope round the place where the Prince was to swim.” Which meant, of course, that any stray shark had to break through a ring of courtiers before it reached the Prince. It is to the Prince’s credit that that sort of tiling does not appeal to him in the least; lie is happiest when lie is, so to speak, “off the chain.” For the rest, lie is quiet, undemonstrative, and warmhearted, with some of the qualities of leadership. Tt was understood that he was to he accompanied on his tour b.v bis chief persona] adviser, the famous Admiral Togo.