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    "ocrText": "The original documents are located in Box 32, folder \"State Dinners - 10/2/75 - Japan\n(1)\" of the Sheila Weidenfeld Files at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.\nCopyright Notice\nThe copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) governs the making of\nphotocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted material. Gerald Ford donated to the United\nStates of America his copyrights in all of his unpublished writings in National Archives collections.\nWorks prepared by U.S. Government employees as part of their official duties are in the public\ndomain. The copyrights to materials written by other individuals or organizations are presumed to\nremain with them. If you think any of the information displayed in the PDF is subject to a valid\ncopyright claim, please contact the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.\nDigitized from Box 32 of the Sheila Weidenfeld Files at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\nWASHINGTON\nDINNER IN HONOR OF\nTHEIR MAJESTIES\nTHE EMPEROR AND EMPRESS OF JAPAN\nOctober 2, 1975\n8:00 p.m.\nDress:\nWhite tie\nlong dresses for the ladies\nArrival:\n8:00 p.m.\nat North Portico Entrance\nTheir Majesties\nThe Emperor and Empress of Japan, Ambassador and Mrs. Catto\nYou and Mrs. Ford will greet\nPhoto coverage of greeting including live via satellite coverage\nto Japan. There will also be live via satellite coverage to Japan\nof you and Mrs. Ford escorting Their Majesties The Emperor\nand Empress of Japan to the elevator.\nYellow Oval Room:\nSecretary and Mrs. Kissinger; Deputy Prime Minister Fukuda;\nAmerican Ambassador and Mrs. Hodgson; and Foreign Ambassador\nand Mrs. Yasukawa will assemble just prior to the 8:00 p.m.\narrival of Their Majesties The Emperor and Empress of Japan\nand Ambassador and Mrs. Catto.\nColor Guard will request permission to remove Colors at\napproximately 8:10 p.m.\nall guests except Their Majesties\nThe Emperor and Empress of Japan will depart at this time.\nGrand Entrance:\nApproximately 8:12 p.m.\ndescend Grand Staircase preceded\nby Color Guard.\n-2-\nTheir Majesties The Emperor\nand Empress of Japan Dinner\nPause at foot of staircase for official photograph and live via\nsatellite coverage to Japan (His Majesty The Emperor of Japan\nto your right\nHer Majesty The Empress of Japan to your\nleft\nthen Mrs. Ford).\nColor Guard reforms and procession moves to red carpet\nfacing East Room\npause for Ruffles and Flourishes and\nannouncement\ntake receiving line positions (His Majesty\nThe Emperor of Japan\nthen Mrs. Ford\nthen Her Majesty\nThe Empress of Japan).\nFollow Color Guard into East Room when \"Hail to the Chief\" is\nplayed.\nReceiving Line:\nTake position just inside door of East Room\nAmbassador\nCatto will present your guests.\nThere will be press pool coverage of the receiving line including\nlive via satellite coverage to Japan.\nAfter receiving line, follow guests into State Dining Room.\nThere will be live via satellite coverage to Japan of you and\nMrs. Ford escorting Their Majesties The Emperor and Empress\nof Japan to the State Dining Room.\nDinner:\nE-shape table\nNo press coverage of dinner; live via satellite coverage to Japan\nof your entrance and seating for the dinner\ntoasts will be piped\nto the press\ntranscripts will be released to the press\nthere\nwill be mini-camera coverage of the toasts with a small photo pool\nincluding live via satellite coverage to Japan.\nAfter-Dinner:\n10:00 p.m.\nguests proceed to parlors for demitasse, liqueurs,\nand cigars. You and Mrs. Ford will escort Their Majesties The\nEmperor and Empress of Japan to the Blue Room where you will\nvisit informally with your guests.\n- -3-\nTheir Majesties The Emperor\nand Empress of Japan Dinner\nNo press coverage in the Blue Room.\n10:05 p.m.\nafter-dinner guests will be escorted to the State\nFloor. You, Mrs. Ford, Their Majesties The Emperor and\nEmpress of Japan (His Majesty The Emperor of Japan to your right\nthen Mrs. Ford\nthen Her Majesty The Empress of Japan)\nwill receive the after-dinner guests from a position in the Grand\nHall between the Blue Room and Green Room doors -- a Military\nSocial Aide will present your guests -- guests will proceed to the\nEast Room and take their seats.\nEntertainment:\nAfter the guests are seated, you will enter the East Room through\nthe center door and seat Mrs. Ford and Their Majesties The\nEmperor and Empress of Japan.\nYou proceed to the stage which will be located at the North End\nof the East Room and introduce Van Cliburn.\nNOTE: Suggested remarks (Tab A).\nAt the conclusion of the performance, you and Mrs. Ford will\nescort Their Majesties The Emperor and Empress of Japan to the\nstage to thank Mr. Cliburn.\nNOTE: There will be live via satellite coverage to Japan of your\nescorting Mrs. Ford and Their Majesties The Emperor and Empress\nof Japan to their seats. There will be press coverage including\nlive via satellite coverage to Japan of the entire entertainment\nprogram.\nAfter you have thanked Van Cliburn, you and Mrs. Ford will escort\nTheir Majesties The Emperor and Empress of Japan to the Grand\nFoyer and Blue Room where you will mingle informally with your\nguests.\nNOTE: Members of the Howard Devron Orchestra will provide\nmusic for the dancing in the Grand Foyer.\nDeparture:\nYou, Mrs. Ford, Ambassador and Mrs. Catto escort Their\nMajesties The Emperor and Empress of Japan to the North Portico.\n-4-\nTheir Majesties The Emperor\nand Empress of Japan Dinner\nYou and Mrs. Ford may wish to return for dancing or return to the\nFamily Quarters.\nThere will be champagne, mixed drinks and dancing for the guests\nwho remain.\nNOTES:\nThe dinner and after-dinner guest lists are attached (Tab B).\nA suggested toast is attached (Tab C).\nMilitary Social Aides will be present.\nThe Navy Band will be playing on the South Balcony as your dinner\nguests arrive.\nAn Army Violinist will be playing in the Diplomatic Reception Room\nas your dinner and after-dinner guests arrive.\nWhite House photographer will be present.\nThere will be interpreters.\nThe Air Force Strolling Strings will play during dessert.\nPat Howard\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\nWASHINGTON\nDINNER IN HONOR OF\nTHEIR MAJESTIES\nTHE EMPEROR AND EMPRESS OF JAPAN\nOctober 2, 1975\n8:00 p.m.\nDress:\nWhite tie\nlong dresses for the ladies\nArrival:\n8:00 p.m.\nat North Portico Entrance\nTheir Majesties\nThe Emperor and Empress of Japan, Ambassador and Mrs. Catto\nYou and Mrs. Ford will greet\nPhoto coverage of greeting including live via satellite coverage\nto Japan. There will also be live via satellite coverage to Japan\nof you and Mrs. Ford escorting Their Majesties The Emperor\nand Empress of Japan to the elevator.\nYellow Oval Room:\nSecretary and Mrs. Kissinger; Deputy Prime Minister Fukuda;\nAmerican Ambassador and Mrs. Hodgson; and Foreign Ambassador\nand Mrs. Yasukawa will assemble just prior to the 8:00 p.m.\narrival of Their Majesties The Emperor and Empress of Japan\nand Ambassador and Mrs. Catto.\nColor Guard will request permission to remove Colors at\napproximately 8:10 p.m.\nall guests except Their Majesties\nThe Emperor and Empress of Japan will depart at this time.\nGrand Entrance:\nApproximately 8:12 p.m.\ndescend Grand Staircase preceded\nby Color Guard.\n-2-\nTheir Majesties The Emperor\nand Empress of Japan Dinner\nPause at foot of staircase for official photograph and live via\nsatellite coverage to Japan (His Majesty The Emperor of Japan\nto your right\nHer Majesty The Empress of Japan to your\nleft\nthen Mrs. Ford).\nColor Guard reforms and procession moves to red carpet\nfacing East Room\npause for Ruffles and Flourishes and\nannouncement\ntake receiving line positions (His Majesty\nThe Emperor of Japan\nthen Mrs. Ford\nthen Her Majesty\nThe Empress of Japan).\nFollow Color Guard into East Room when \"Hail to the Chief\" is\nplayed.\nReceiving Line:\nTake position just inside door of East Room\nAmbassador\nCatto will present your guests.\nThere will be press pool coverage of the receiving line including\nlive via satellite coverage to Japan.\nAfter receiving line, follow guests into State Dining Room.\nThere will be live via satellite coverage to Japan of you and\nMrs. Ford escorting Their Majesties The Emperor and Empress\nof Japan to the State Dining Room.\nDinner:\nE-shape table\nNo press coverage of dinner; live via satellite coverage to Japan\nof your entrance and seating for the dinner\ntoasts will be piped\nto the press\ntranscripts will be released to the press\nthere\nwill be mini-camera coverage of the toasts with a small photo pool\nincluding live via satellite coverage to Japan.\nAfter-Dinner:\n10:00 p.m.\nguests proceed to parlors for demitasse, liqueurs,\nand cigars. You and Mrs. Ford will escort Their Majesties The\nEmperor and Empress of Japan to the Blue Room where you will\nvisit informally with your guests.\n-3- -\nTheir Majesties The Emperor\nand Empress of Japan Dinner\nNo press coverage in the Blue Room.\n10:05 p.m.\nafter-dinner guests will be escorted to the State\nFloor. You, Mrs. Ford, Their Majesties The Emperor and\nEmpress of Japan (His Majesty The Emperor of Japan to your right\nthen Mrs. Ford\nthen Her Majesty The Empress of Japan)\nwill receive the after-dinner guests from a position in the Grand\nHall between the Blue Room and Green Room doors -- a Military\nSocial Aide will present your guests -- guests will proceed to the\nEast Room and take their seats.\nEntertainment:\nAfter the guests are seated, you will enter the East Room through\nthe center door and seat Mrs. Ford and Their Majesties The\nEmperor and Empress of Japan.\nYou proceed to the stage which will be located at the North End\nof the East Room and introduce Van Cliburn.\nNOTE: Suggested remarks (Tab A).\nAt the conclusion of the performance, you and Mrs. Ford will\nescort Their Majesties The Emperor and Empress of Japan to the\nstage to thank Mr. Cliburn.\nNOTE: There will be live via satellite coverage to Japan of your\nescorting Mrs. Ford and Their Majesties The Emperor and Empress\nof Japan to their seats. There will be press coverage including\nlive via satellite coverage to Japan of the entire entertainment\nprogram.\nAfter you have thanked Van Cliburn, you and Mrs. Ford will escort\nTheir Majesties The Emperor and Empress of Japan to the Grand\nFoyer and Blue Room where you will mingle informally with your\nguests.\nNOTE: Members of the Howard Devron Orchestra will provide\nmusic for the dancing in the Grand Foyer.\nDeparture:\nYou, Mrs. Ford, Ambassador and Mrs. Catto escort Their\nMajesties The Emperor and Empress of Japan to the North Portico.\n-4-\nTheir Majesties The Emperor\nand Empress of Japan Dinner\nYou and Mrs. Ford may wish to return for dancing or return to the\nFamily Quarters.\nThere will be champagne, mixed drinks and dancing for the guests\nwho remain.\nNOTES:\n- -\nThe dinner and after-dinner guest lists are attached (Tab B).\nA suggested toast is attached (Tab C).\nMilitary Social Aides will be present.\nThe Navy Band will be playing on the South Balcony as your dinner\nguests arrive.\nAn Army Violinist will be playing in the Diplomatic Reception Room\nas your dinner and after-dinner guests arrive.\nWhite House photographer will be present.\nThere will be interpreters.\nThe Air Force Strolling Strings will play during dessert.\nPat Howard\nCrysanhemim - - it' the hel royal\nflower of Japan\nit seemed auprophete\nватои\nbedosis betasggua A\nad\nHiw\nHiw\nstarug\ngnivalq\nHiw\nod\nfllw\nHiw\nbrawell\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\nWASHINGTON\nARRIVAL CEREMONY FOR THEIR MAJESTIES\nTHE EMPEROR AND THE EMPRESS OF JAPAN\nTHURSDAY - OCTOBER 2, 1975\nThe South Grounds\n1\n10:30 A.M.\nFrom:\nTerry O'Donnell\nSEQUENCE:\n10:28 a.m.\nYou depart Oval Office and proceed to Diplomatic\nReception Room where you will join Mrs. Ford.\nFollowing announcement and \"Ruffles and Flourishes\"\n(Marine Band only - no trumpets), you and Mrs. Ford\nproceed out the Diplomatic Reception Room entrance,\ncross the driveway, and take your positions facing\nthe entrance to the Diplomatic Reception Room.\n10:31 a. m.\nTheir Majesties the Emperor and the Empress\narrive and are introduced to you and Mrs. Ford by\nthe Chief of Protocol. You then introduce Secretary\nof State and Mrs. Kissinger, and the Acting Chairman,\nJoint Chiefs of Staff and Mrs. Frederick C. Weyand.\nYou and the Emperor move to your positions on the\nplatform facing south. The Emperor stands to your\nright. Mrs. Ford and Her Majesty move to right of\nplatform.\n10:33 a. m.\nNational Anthems and 21-gun salute.\nInspection of troops - you and His Majesty guided\nby Commander of Troops.\nNOTE:\nYour cue for escorting His Majesty down\nto the Commander of Troops to inspect\nthe troops will be the Commander's report,\n\"Sir, the Honor Guard is formed. \"\n2.\nReturn to your positions on the platform facing south.\nU.S. Marine Drum and Bugle Corps passes in Review.\n10:40 a.m.\nAfter the Commander of Troops reports, \"Sir, this\nconcludes the Honors\", you usher His Majesty to your\nright to stand next to you adjacent to the podium\nwhile you deliver welcoming remarks.\nLIVE TELEVISION COVERAGE VIA\n1 SATELLITE TO JAPAN\nFULL PRESS COVERAGE\nNOTE:\nThe Emperor will receive a simultaneous\n\"whisper'translation of your remarks.\n10:45 a.m.\nHis Majesty responds.\nNOTE:\nHis Majesty's remarks will be interpreted\ninto English in their entirety following\ndelivery.\n10:45 a.m.\nYou and Mrs. Ford and Their Majesties ascend the\nright outside staircase to the South Portico balcony.\nYou will pause at the center of the South Portico\nbalcony for a photograph and then enter the Blue\nRoom where you will be joined by Secretary and\nMrs. Kissinger and General and Mrs. Weyand,\nMembers of the Official Party (list attached at TAB A),\nand members of the welcoming committee.\n11:00 a.m.\nYou and Mrs. Ford escort Their Majesties to the\nRed Room for an informal visit.\nNOTE:\nFour chairs will be located in front of the\nfireplace in the Red Room. Mrs. Ford will\nbe seated on your left, the Emperor on your\nright, and the Empress on the Emperor's\nright.\nPRESS PHOTO COVERAGE\n3.\n11:15 a. m.\nYou and Mrs. Ford escort Their Majesties down the\nelevator to the ground floor where you will walk Their\nMajesties through the Rose Garden, pausing briefly\nfor a Press Photo therein.\n11:20 a. m.\nYou and Mrs. Ford escort Their Majesties from\nthe Rose Garden up the Garden's west steps and\nalong the colonnade to the Oval Office, entering\nthrough the West door.\nInside, you and Mrs. Ford briefly show Their\nMajesties your office.\n11:25 a.m.\nYou and Mrs. Ford escort Their Majesties down the\nsidewalk to their waiting limousine, and bid them\nfarewell. A 30-man cordon and the U.S. Army\nFife and Drum Corps will render Honors as they\ndepart.\nYou and Mrs. Ford remain on the driveway as\nTheir Majesties depart.\n11:30 a. m.\nYou return to the Oval Office.\n####\nMEMBERS OF THE OFFICIAL JAPANESE\nPARTY\nHis Majesty the Emperor of Japan\nHer Majesty the Empress of Japan\nHis Excellency Takeo Fukuda\nDeputy Prime Minister\nHis Excellency Takeshi Yasukawa\nAmbassador of Japan to the United States\nMrs. Yasukawa\nHis Excellency Takeshi Usami\nGrand Steward, Imperial Household Agency\nHis Excellency Sukemasa Irie\nGrand Chamberlain to His Majesty the Emperor\nHis Excellency Morio Yukawa\nGrand Master of Ceremonies to His Majesty\nthe Emperor\nHis Excellency Naraichi Fujiyama\nAmbassador, Press Secretary to His Majesty\nthe Emperor\nThe Honorable Yoshihiro Tokugawa\nVice-Grand Chamberlain to His Majesty\nthe Emperor\nMrs. Sachiko Kitashirakawa\nChief Lady-in-Waiting to Her Majesty the Empress\n- 2 -\nHis Excellency Hiroshi Uchida\nAmbassador, Chief of Protocol, Ministry of\nForeign Affairs\nThe Honorable Shigetaka Nishino\nChief Physician to His Majesty the Emperor\nHis Excellency Hideki Masaki\nInterpreter to His Majesty the Emperor\nMEMORANDUM\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\nWASHINGTON\nSeptember 25, 1975\nMEMORANDUM FOR\nUsher's Office\nExec Protective Svc\nMiss S. Porter\nVisitor's Office\nGSA (EOB)\nMSgt Collins, USMC\nWH Garage\nPress Office\nExec Grounds Office\nSocial Office\nUSSS\nMrs. S. Weidenfeld\nNell Yates\nWHCA\nWH Florist\nFROM:\nK\nCaptain L.S. Kollmorgen\nA full honor arrival ceremony will be held for Their Majesties, the\nEmperor and Empress of Japan on the South Grounds at 10:30 a.m.\non October 2.\nThe following are needed in connection with the ceremony:\na. The review stand, associated equipment and stanchions for\nVIP area, positioned on the South Grounds on October lst.\nb. Overhead awning removed from the entrance to the South Portico.\nC. Furniture cleared for the receiving line and refreshments served\nto guests in the Blue Room.\nd. Sound set-up for South Grounds. An interpreter's microphone\nwill be required on the platform. The Emperor is 5\" 7\" tall.\ne. Car checkers with equipment available not later than 9:45 a.m.\nf. Two Social Aides report to the Military Duty Aide by 9:30 a.m.\ng. A bouquet of roses for Mrs. Ford to present to Her Majesty be\nprepared and delivered to the Usher's Office by 9:45 a.m. The stems\nshould be wrapped.\nIn case of inclement weather, the East Room will be used.\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\nWASHINGTON\nThursday\nSheila,\nA special thanks for making the\ntheater available to the Japanese.\nYou really solved an enormous\nproblem for us. In the event\nof rain for the arrival ceremony,\nit will also provide a location\nfor the correspondents in addition\nto the evening events.\nBill Roberts has suggested you\nmight consider using the Map Room\nfor the ladies -- and will discuss\nit with you and WHCA.\nD.\nHelen\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\nWASHINGTON\nSeptember 12, 1975\nMEMORANDUM FOR: HELEN COLLINS\nMR. MITSUHIKO HAZUMI - EMBASSY OF JAPAN\nPAT HOWARD\nMARY MASSERINI - DEPARTMENT OF STATE\nPATTI MATSON\nMR. KOICHI MATSUMOTO - EMBASSY OF JAPAN\nBOB MEAD\nRON NESSEN\nREX SCOUTEN\nMR. TAKASHI SUETSUNE (NHK, WASHINGTON)\nSHEILA WEIDENFELD\nFROM:\nBILL ROBERTS Jah\nSUBJECT:\nTENTATIVE PLANS FOR COVERAGE OF THE\nVISIT OF EMPEROR HIROHITO - OCTOBER 2, 3\nIn preparation for the visit of the Japanese pool survey crew September\n17-19, and as an aid to completion of final arrangements, here is an\noutline of tentative plans for press coverage of the visit of Their\nMajesties, pending final approval of arrangements:\nBERMIO R. FORD LIBRARY\n1.\nARRIVAL, SOUTH LAWN\nOpen press coverage. NHK plans live satellite transmission\nof the arrival, with crews and equipment furnished by CBS,\nThis calls for four camera crews at normal locations pre-\npositioned the preceding day. The inclement weather\nalternative would call for three live cameras -- one at the\nNorth Portico, and two in the East Room.\nFor all other press -- with a South Lawn arrival, áll other\npress in the usual area. With East Room, a limited pool\nprimarily photographers, with a total of some 50 persons.\nPool coverage of the Review of the Troops and the photo of\nthe ceremony from the balcony would include 6 Japanese\ncameramen -- 1 official photographer, 2 newspaper\nphotographers, 2 wire service photographers, and 1 film\ncameraman, plus the standard U.S. pool of still and film\nphotographers -- a total of 14 persons.\n-2-\n2.\nOVAL OFFICE MEETING (IF APPROVED)\nA pool of 15 still and film photographers from the U. S.,\n15 from Japan, plus a pool of 8 writers from each country.\n46 in all.\n3.\nSTATE DINNER, STATE DINNING ROOM\n(a)\nArrival of Their Majesties, North Portico\n1 or 2 live TV cameras, plus other photographers and\ncameramen, and a pool of 8 American and 8 Japanese\nwriters.\n(NOTE: Business suits and street dresses\nfor press.)\n(b)\nStaircase Photo, North Entrance\nSame coverage (Business suits and street dresses for press.\n(c)\nReception, East Room\n2 live TV cameras -- prepositioned -- plus pool of\n4 still photographers from the U.S. and 4 still\nphotographers from Japan.\n(NOTE: White tie and long dresses for press. )\n(d)\nState Dinner, State Dining Room (See attached diagram\nfor Seating Plan)\n2 live TV cameras -- prepositioned -- plus pool of\n4 still photographers from each country.\n(NOTE: White tie and long dresses for press. )\nPhoto coverage of the entrance of the guests and the\nstart of the dinner and the Exchange of Toasts only.\nToasts will be piped to the Press Room and to the\nFamily Theatre.\n- -3-\n(e)\nEntertainment, East Room\nSame photo coverage as the Reception, with the 2 TV\ncameras and 8 still photographers, but with addition of\nwriting pool -- size to be determined (probably about 20).\n(NOTE: White tie and long dresses for press. )\nAttachment:\nDiagram - State Dining Room\nWITHDRAWAL SHEET (PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARIES)\nFORM OF\nCORRESPONDENTS OR TITLE\nDATE\nRESTRICTION\nDOCUMENT\nDoc.\nFloor plan /1 Pages\nB\n10/2/75\nFile Location:\nShelia Weidenfeld Files, Box 32, State Visits File: 10/2/75 - Japan (1)\nRESTRICTION CODES\nJJO 01/30/17\n(A) Closed by applicable Executive order governing access to national security information.\n(B) Closed by statute or by the agency which originated the document.\n(C) Closed in accordance with restrictions contained in the donor's deed of gift.\nNATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION\nNA FORM 1429 (1-98)\nDate Issued 9/3/75\nBy P. Howard\nRevised\nFACT SHEET\nMrs. Ford's Office\nEvent State Dinner\nGroup IN HONOR OF THE EMPEROR AND EMPRESS OF JAPAN\nDATE/TIME October 2, 1975 - 8:00\np.m.\nContact Pat Howar d\nPhone 2927\n113 - Dinner\nNumber of guests: Total100 A-Dinner Women x\nMen X\nChildren\nPlace State Floor\nPrincipals involved President and Mrs. Ford\nParticipation by Principal yes\n(Receiving line) yes\nRemarks required yes\nBackground\n--\nREQUIREMENTS\nSocial:\nGuest list yes\nInvitations yes\nPrograms yes Menus yes\nRefreshments State Dinner Format\nEntertainment yes\nDecorations/flowers yes\nMusic yes\nSocial Aides yes\nDress White Tie\nCoat check yes\nOther ---\nPress:\nReporters yes\nPhotographers yes\nTV Crews yes\nWhite House Photographers yes\nColor yes\nMono,\nFORD R. LIBRARY\nOther --\nTechnical\nSupport:\nMicrophones yes\nPA Other Rooms yes\nRecording yes\nLights yes\nTransportation cars\nParking South Grounds\nHousing --\nOther --\n(Risers,stage,platforms) yes\nProject Co-ordinator Pat Howard\nPhone 2927\nSite diagrams should be attached if technical support is heavy.\nWITHDRAWAL SHEET (PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARIES)\nFORM OF\nCORRESPONDENTS OR TITLE\nDATE\nRESTRICTION\nDOCUMENT\nDoc.\nDiagrams / 3 Pages\nB\n10/2/75\nFile Location:\nShelia Weidenfeld Files, Box 32, State Visits File: 10/2/75 - Japan (1)\nRESTRICTION CODES\nJJO 01/30/17\n(A) Closed by applicable Executive order governing access to national security information.\n(B) Closed by statute or by the agency which originated the document.\n(C) Closed in accordance with restrictions contained in the donor's deed of gift.\nNATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION\nNA FORM 1429 (1-98)\nOF STATE\nWashington, D.C. 20520\nSeptember 23, 1975\nMEMORANDUM FOR PATTI MATSON\nHI FRIEND !!!\nI am enclosing all of the information on the cranes\nthat I have. I have asked Nell to call you when the\nidea has been approved.\nFor additional information:\nDave Brown, State Department, Japan Desk\n632-3152\nKeith McCarthy, Interior Department\n343-2482 or 343-5634\nGood Luck and many thanks.\nSusie\nFISH AND WILD:\nINTERIOR\nUnited States Department of the Interior\nFISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE\nMarch ) 1849\nWASHINGTON, D.C. 20240\nIn Reply Refer To:\nJuly 22, 1975\nFWS/AI\nMrs. Susan Dolibois\nProtocol Officer\nOffice of Protocol\nDepartment of State\nRoom 1238\nWashington, D.C. 20520\nDear Mrs. Dolibois:\nThis is in further reference to conversations between you and\nMr. Keith R. McCarthy of my staff regarding the visit to the\nUnited States by Emperor Hirohito of Japan.\nThe copy of the letter, which Secretary Hathaway has not yet signed,\ndeals with a proposed visit to our fish disease laboratory at\nLeetown, West Virginia.\nThe second enclosure regards the possible presentation of a pair\nof sandhill cranes to the people of Japan by President Ford. It\nshould be emphasized that we have had no formal indication from the\nJapanese that they would be interested in such a gift. It would\nbe necessary to pursue this matter through appropriate diplomatic\nchannels. Such an approach has the endorsement of the Department\nof the Interior.\nAfter you have had time to peruse these materials, Mr. McCarthy\nwill be in further touch with you.\nSincerely yours,\nLynn Director\nEnclosures\nAMERICAN REVOLUTION\n1776-1976\nBRIEFING MATERIAL RE PROPOSED PRESENTATION OF\nGREATER SANDHILL CRANES TO EMPEROR OF JAPAN\nThere are 15 species of cranes in the world, occurring in Africa, Asia,\nAustralia, Europe, and North America. In Japan, the Japanese crane\n(Grus japonensis) is highly revered, having been declared a national\nmonument by the Japanese Government. The species is considered a symbol\nof love and marital fidelity and has been the subject of Japanese art\ndating back 1500 years or more. Like its nearest North American rela-\ntive, the whooping crane, the Japanese crane is considered an endangered\nspecies and is receiving management attention by the Japanese Government.\nThe species now numbers about 263 birds, having come back from a low of\nabout 20 early in the century. Although it originally occupied the\nmore southern islands of Japan, the species now is present only on\nthe southeastern coastline of Hokkaido, the northernmost island.\nTwenty of the birds are in captivity at the Kushiro City Crane Park,\nthe remainder of the 263 using the Kushiro marsh area. This marsh,\noriginally 22,000 acres, is, being reduced by silt deposition resulting\nfrom human activity so that it now approximates 17,000 acres.\n:The sandhill crane and whooping crane are the only species of crane found\nin the wild in the western hemisphere. Of the six subspecies of sandhill\ncrane, the greater sandhill crane (Grus canadensis tabida) is the largest.\nThe lesser sandhill crane (Grus canadensis canadensis) is the most\nabundant, numbering between 200,000 and 300,000, and may be legally\nhunted each fall in some States. The Mississippi sandhill crane (Grus\ncanadensis pulla), a nonmigrating form found in southeastern Mississippi,\nis the rarest crane in North America, only about 35 remaining in the wild.\nIt has been proposed that a pair of greater sandhill cranes be presented\nto the Emperor of Japan during his expected visit, as a gift to the\npeople of Japan.\nThe greater sandhill crane is common in southeastern Oregon and south-\neastern Idaho, and is prevalent in adjacent States as well as in the\nGreat Lakes region. It is the subspecies at Grays Lake National Wildlife\nRefuge in southeastern Idaho into whose nests 14 whooping crane eggs from\nWood Buffalo National Park were placed last May to establish a new wild\nbreeding population. The greater sandhill crane pairs are expected to\nserve as foster parents with whom the young whoopers will remain for\nnearly a year until the next breeding season.\nIn contrast to the predominantly white plumage with black markings of\nthe Japanese and whooping cranes, the greater sandhill crane, slightly\nsmaller in size, has predominantly gray plumage broken only by lighter\nsides of the face and a bare, vivid, reddish crown. The two birds\nwhich are being considered as a gift to the Japanese people, a yearling\nmale and female, were reared from eggs laid by a captive pair of greater\nsandhill cranes at the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center near Laurel,\nMaryland. It is likely that in suitable facilities in Japan they will\neventually breed. Greater sandhill cranes are handsome birds and the\npair will be a unique addition to any bird exhibit for enjoyment of the\npeople of Japan.\nSandhill cranes are omnivorous and include grain, roots of various marsh\nplants, insects, crayfish, snakes, frogs, nestling birds and mice, as well\nas other plants and animals, in their diet. They become sexually mature\nin 3 or 4 years, and may live 50 years or more. Their nest, a bulky\nstructure of grasses, bulrush, cattails, or sedges, usually is in meadows\nor marshy terrain, and most clutches contain two eggs. From the 4-inch\negg, a rusty-colored chick hatches in about 30 days and can fly in about\n:\n3 months. Adult cranes engage in ritualized courting which includes\nstately postures, dancing and strutting, loud vocalizations, and often\namusing or even aggressive behavior. All species of cranes remain mated\nfor life, though if one dies the survivor may choose another partner.\nFor any ceremonial exhibition of the cranes relative to their transfer\nto the Japanese, an enclosure constructed with 8-foot steel fenceposts\nand fence with 2-inch woven-wire mesh about 6 feet high, and equipped\nwith a 36-inch wide gate, will provide a satisfactory temporary confine-\nment situation on the White House lawn. Feathers of one wing will be\nclipped to render the birds flightless. A total fenced space 30, by\n40 feet would provide ample room for the cranes (1,200 square feet) and\nwould enhance photographic opportunities. The birds will be gentle and\npreconditioned to tolerate human presence, so can be approached closely\nshould a few (preferably not more than a half-dozen) officials or camera-\nmen, wish to inspect or to photograph the cranes at close range. The\ncranes may nibble inquisitively with their bills at buttons, shoelaces,\nfingers or cameras, but at this age are not dangerous. A bucket of\ndrinking water will be provided the cranes, along with feeder with food\npellets, the latter more for the cranes' relief from boredom than for\nany nutritional need unless they must remain in the enclosure for more\nthan 8-10 hours.\nIf large crowds are expected to be near the pen area, a roped-off zone\nsurrounding and extending at least 8-10 feet out from the fence is\nadvisable to protect both pen and birds from the guests. Personnel from\nthe Patuxent Center will deliver and should attend the birds, as well as\nprovide guidance for building the pen.\n2\nAfter the ceremonies are over, the cranes should be returned to the\nPatuxent Center where they will be rested and in other ways prepared\nfor shipment to Japan. It is suggested that they go by a Great Circle\nflight which stops only to refuel in Anchorage, Alaska, so that they\nwill be enroute a minimum period of time and arrive in the best\npossible condition.\n3\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\nWASHINGTON\nSUBJECT: Instructions for Social Aides\nEVENT: Arrival Ceremony - - Their Majesties, the Emperor and Empress of Japan\nDate/Time: October 2, 1975 (10:30)\nI\nNo. of Guests:\nUniform:\nService Dress\nI\nParking: North Grounds\nIn-Place Time for Aides:\n9:30 a.m. (Duty Aide)\nIn-Place Time for OIC:\nDuty Aide: Major Robert E. Barrett, USA\nFirst Family Participation: The President and Mrs. Ford\nThe following Social Aides will attend:\nMajor Duncan D. Briggs, USA\nCapt Charles I. Arms, USAF\n*Officer in Charge\nMusic:\nGENATE 11. FORD LIBRARY\nRemarks:\n3 Doormen from Garage\nmacolline\nROBERT E. BARRETT\nMajor, U. S. Army\nArmy Aide to the President\nDISTRIBUTION:\nCapt Kollmorgen\nUsher's Office\nMaj Barrett\nMrs. Weidenfeld\nWhite House Garage\nCapt Domina\nSecret Service\nWhite House Staff Mess\nCapt Mead\nVisitor's Office\nMr. O'Donnell\nBand\nWhite House Police\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\nWASHINGTON\nSUBJECT: Instructions for Social Aides\nEVENT: State Dinner - The Emperor and Empress of Japan\nDate/Time: October 2, 1975 (8:00)\nNo. of Guests:\n113\nUniform: White Tie\nParking: South Grounds\nIn-Place Time for Aides:\n6:30 p.m. (Library)\nIn-Place Time for OIC:\n6:00 p.m. (Duty Aide)\nDuty Aide: Major R. E. Barrett, USA\nFirst Family Participation:\nThe President and First Lady\nThe following Social Aides will attend:\nLt F. Taney Heil, USN\nCapt Charles I. Arms, USAF\nLt John A. Gaughan, USCG\nCapt Roger F. Peters, USAF\nLt M; chael F. Martus, USN\nCapt Virginia L. McDonald, USAF\nLt Cynthia T. Atwell, USN\n2dLt Jeffrey R. Bircher, USAF\nLt(jg) Shelley E. Cochran, USN\n* Major Henry W. Buse, USMC\nMajor Duncan D. Briggs, USA\nCapt John R. Harris, USMC\nCapt Janet S. Rexrode, USA\nCapt Teryl L. Peterson, USMC\nCapt Thomas L. Groppel, USA\nCapt Daine S. Hoeft, USMC\nMajor David Van Poznak, USAF\n1stLt John B. Sollis, USMC\nCapt John D. Power, USAF\n1stLt Scott W. McKenzie, USMC\nCapt James M. Roberts, USAF\nCapt Robert G. Page, USMC\n*Officer in Charge\nMusic: US Army Herald Trumpets North Portico (7:15)\nUS Army Violinist in Diplomatic Reception Room (7:15) & (9:15) (East Gate)\nUS Navy Band on South Balcony (7:15) (Southwest Gate)\nUSMC Orchestra in the Lobby (7:30) (East Gate)\nUS Air Force Strolling Strings in State Dining Room (9:00) (East Gate)\nRemarks:\nStaff Mess will feed Aides\n3 Doormen from MDW\n1 Doorman from Garage\nROBERT macollin E. BARRETT\nFORD is DERALD LIBRARY\nCall system in effect\nMajor, U. S. Army\nArmy Aide to the President\nDISTRIBUTION:\nCapt Kollmorgen\nUsher's Office\nMaj Barrett\nMrs. Weidenfeld\nWhite House Garage\nCapt Domina\nSecret Service\nWhite House Staff Mess\nCapt Mead\nVisitor's Office\nMr. 'Donnell\nBand\nWhite House Police\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\nWASHINGTON\nSeptember 30, 1975\nMEMORANDUM FOR:\nALL WHITE HOUSE/O. E.O.B. STAFF\nSUBJECT:\nArrival Ceremony\nTheir Majesties\nThe Emperor and Empress of Japan\nThursday, October 2, 1975-10:30 a.m.\nYou and your family and friends are invited to attend the Arrival\nCeremony on the South Lawn for Their Majesties The Emperor and\nEmpress of Japan.\nGuests accompanied by a White House or OEOB pass holder will\nbe admitted through the Southwest Gate on Thursday, October 2,\n1975, beginning at 9:30 a.m. If you are unfamiliar with the\nproper standing areas, one of the Executive Protective Service\nOfficers will be happy to assist you.\nThe President and Mrs. Ford hope you will enjoy joining them in\nextending a warm welcome to our distinguished guests.\nMiho Farrell\nMichael J. Farrell\nDirector\nOffice of White House Visitors\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\nWASHINGTON\nAugust 7, 1975\nMEMORANDUM FOR:\nRON NESSEN\nDICK CHENEY\nJERRY JONES\nREX SCOUTEN\nDICK KEISER\nBILL ROBERTS\nSHEILA WEIDENFELD\nCAPT. KOLLMORGAN\nMIKE FARRELL\nFROM:\nBOB MEAD ADD\nSUBJECT:\nJapan's Emperor Visit to the US\nOn the occasion of Hirohito's visit to the U.S., the Japanese press,\nparticularly television, has planned very extensive coverage. As you\nknow this is a historical \"first\" for both countries and a larger state\nvisit coverage plan should be put into effect. At the outset, I might\nadd that on our Japanese visits, they extend tremendous cooperation to\nus and the American television networks.\nThe Japanese have hired CBS to do all of their television during their U.S.\nvisit. For your background, there will be complete satellite coverage of\nthe Williamsburg arrival, broadcast \"live\" to Japan; 12 \"live\" cameras\nat Disneyland for the visit there.\nWe wish to be as cooperative as we can for the visit here on the 18-acre\ncomplex. The Japanese have asked for the following:\n1.\nNormal camera positions for the South Lawn Arrival.\n2.\nFive broadcast booths erected on a high location for voice\ndescriptions of the five Japanese networks to accompany\nFORD\nthe \"pool\" picture which will be broadcast \"live\" via\nGERA\nsatellite in Japan.\nLIBRARY\n3. A camera at the North Portico for the State Dinner arrival\nsite.\n4.\nA camera in the foyer for the official photograph.\n5.\nTwo cameras in the State Dining room for the dinner and the\ntoasts (audio will still originate from the five outdoor\nbooths.)\n6. Permission to move the arrival camera and the foyer camera\nduring the dinner to the East Room for the entertainment.\n- 2 -\nTechnically all of the above can work. And I have been informed that\nthe American networks are planning to also cover the dinner \"live\" on\nthat evening. If this is so, it is a great opportunity for us and we\nshould give much cooperation to their requests. Can I have your thoughts\non this?\ncc:\nEPS Control Center\nNancy Ruwe\nBob Snow/TSD\nTerry O'Donnell\nFORDO - GENALD LIBRARY\nDEPARTMENT OF STATE\nOperations Center\nLDX MESSAGE RECEIPT\n[\nCF STATE TE\nS/S #\n'75 OCT / AM 11: 08\nLDX 1275 CCT MESSAGE AM. 1162 9 9 CLASSIFICATION INCLASS, FILES Enjuse NO. PAGES 2\nDESCRIPTION OF MSG. DRAFT PRESS\nSITUATION ROOM\nFROM: BROWN\nSAFAN (EA/J) DESK\n,\n,\n23.52\n\"\n,\n4210\nOfficer\nOffice Symbol\nExtension\nRoom Number\n6.\nLDX TO:\nDELIVER TO:\nEXTENSION:\nROOM NUMBER:\nN.S.S\n,\nJAY TAXLOR\ni\n9\n3044\n,\n361\nEAST\nWHITE STROATION House way , FATIE MATSON\n2193\n208 wins-\n,\n1\n:\n,\n,\n,\n,\n,\n,\nFOR:\nCLEARANCE\n/\n/\nINFORMATION\n/\n/\nPER REQUEST / XI COMMENT /\nL\nREMARKS:\nVALIDATED FOR TRANSMISSION BY:\nExecutive Secretariat Officer\nGERALD FORD\nPress Announcement\nPresident and Mrs. Ford, acting on behalf of the\nAmerican people, have presented a pair of Greater Sandhill\nCranes to the people of Japan on the occasion of the state\nvisit of the Emperor and Empress of Japan. The gift is a\ntoken of the friendship between the Japanese and American\npeople. In Japan, cranes are revered as a symbol of good\nfortune, long life and wisdom.\nThe two cranes, a yearling male and female, have\nbeen bred at the Interior Department's Patuxent Wildlife\nResearch Center near Laurel, Maryland. The cranes will\nbe delivered to Japan as soon as arrangements can be made.\nGETALE FORD TERARA\nQuestions and Answers\nQ. What kind of crane is that?\nA. The Greater Sandhill Crane is one of six species of crane\nnative to North America. It is found in the states of the\nNorthwestern US.\nQ. Is it an endangered species?\nA. No, but it is protected from excessive hunting under US\nlaws.\nQ. Where can we get pictures of the cranes?\nA. You can make arrangements to photograph the birds by calling\nKeith McCarthy of the US Fish and Wildlife Service\n(343-2482 or 343-5634). We have a picture here if you\nwish to see it.\nQ. When and where will the cranes be sent to Japan?\nA. The arrangements will be worked out between the two\ngovernments. The Ueno Zoo in Tokyo has agreed to care for\nthe cranes.\nGENERAL R. FORD LIE\nOffice of the Press Secretary to Mrs. Ford\nA six-foot-high Bonsai from the Imperial Collection of Japan\nhas been placed in the Yellow Oval Room of the White House\nfor the visit of the Emperor and Empress.\nIt will greet the Emperor and Empress and other guests this\nevening during a small reception that will precede the white\ntie dinner on the State Floor.\nThe Bonsai is part of a collection of 53 Bonsai trees presented\nto the United States as a gift to the American people from the\nNippon Bonsai Association for its Bicentennial. The collection\nincludes many prized Bonsai from the collections of many\nprominent Japanese, including the Emperor and Prime Minister\nMiki. The collection is in the care of the National Arboretum,\nwhich plans construction of a special building for the care and\ndisplay of the trees.\nThe Bonsai in the Yellow Oval Room given by the Imperial\nfamily is the centerpiece of the gift collection. It is a 180-year-\nold Japanese red pine planted in a 300-year-old lacquer vase.\n# # #\nGENERA R. FORD LIBRARY\nFor immediate release\nTuesday, Sept. 30, 1975\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\nOffice of the Press Secretary to Mrs. Ford\nVan Cliburn has been selected by the President and Mrs. Ford\nto entertain at the white tie dinner honoring the Emperor and\nEmpress of Japan Thursday, Oct. 2.\nVan Cliburn has performed for the past five Presidents and at\nState dinners for Presidents Nixon and Johnson. He performed\nat Inauguration ceremonies for President Johnson in 1965 and\nPresident Nixon in 1973.\nHe typically makes about 60 appearances in the United States and\nCanada each season, and his 1975-76 tour is currently sold out.\nHe visited Japan this summer and returned since to perform at\nfour of the major US festivals: the Robin Hood Dell in Philadelphia;\nthe Beethoven Marathon at the Hollywood Bowl; The Meadow\nBrook Festival in Michigan; and the Cleveland Orchestra's\nBlossom Festival.\nAccording to the Celebrity Register, Van Cliburn has one of the\nlargest followings of any concert pianist on the circuit and is one of\nthe biggest sellers in the field of classical recordings.\nAlthough he had won many musical accolades and prizes prior to\n1958, it was his triumph that year at the International Tchaikovsky\nCompetition in Moscow that gained Van Cliburn his reputation\naccross the country. The Texan, then 24, was honored upon his\nreturn with the first ticker-tape parade New York had ever given to\na classical musician. He went on to be the first foreigner to ever\nplay in the Kremlin's Palace of Congresses.\nVan Cliburn's first public appearance was at the age of four at\nShreveport's Dodd College. Born in Shreveport to Mr. and Mrs.\nHarvey Levan Cliburn, he had learned to play the piano at age three.\nFor 14 years, he studied only under his mother, a talented pianist\n(Rildia Bee O'Bryan Cliburn) who had been a student of Arthur\nFriedheim, a pupil of Franz Liszt.\nThe family moved to Kilgore, Tex. when Cliburn was six. When he\nwas 12, he won the state-wide young pianists' competition and made\nhis orchestral debut with the Houston Symphony. He made his\nCarnegie Hall debut as winner of the National Music Festival Award\nthe following year.\nHe won a number of significant awards in the following years, most\nBIT GERALD R. FORD\nnotably the Edgar M. Leventritt Award in 1954 at age 20. The\ncompetition is held annually, but no prizes awarded unless the\njudges feel there is a worthy recipient. Van Cliburn was the first\nwinner in five years.\nHe established his international reputation in Moscow four years\nlater and has been performing for audiences around the world since.\n#\n#\nFor immediate release\nWednesday, Oct. 1, 1975\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\nOffice of the Press Secretary to Mrs. Ford\nThe President and Mrs. Ford will host a white tie dinner honoring\nthe Emperor and Empress of Japan Thursday, Oct. 2 at 8 p.m.\nPianist Van Cliburn will entertain in the East Room following the\ndinner.\nThis is the first time there has been a State visit in the US by\na reigning Japanese emperor.\nThe accent in the State Dining Roomwill be in deep crimson red and\nsterling silver. The tables will be set in a formal E-shaped\narrangement and draped in white linen.\nA collection of 12 handcrafted American silver art pieces will\nbe the focal point of the tabl e, with other silver highlights\nprovided by two dozen candlestciks and candelabras. The\ncandleholders, all 24\" high, will be filled with long white tapers\nproviding candlelight at eye-level as guests enter the room.\nThe sterling art collection and candleholders will be entwined by\na full garland of crimson blossoms down the center of the white\ntablecloth. The garland will festoon the candèlabras as well, and\nflowers in crimson hues will also highlight the silver collectionpieces.\nThe wall sconces in the State Dining Room will also be decorated with\nthe garland effect. The Johnson china and Morgantown crystal will be used.\nThe decorative silver pieces are part of a collection handcrafted by\nSamuel Kirk & Son of Baltimore, America's oldest silversmith.\nThe collection includes Federal, Empire and Victorian designs from\n1815. One of the most important pieces -- to be displayed at the\ncenter of the E between the President and the Emperor -- is one of\ntwo goblets commissioned from Kirk in 1824 by the Marquis de LaFayette.\nOther pieces range from a wine ewer to a milk jug.\nThe Cross Hall will hold tubs of fresh crimson chrysanthemums\narr anged in a clipped hedged effect. Accents will be provided by round\ntop ficus trees and white chrysarthemums. The stage in the East Room\nwill be surrounded by a garden setting of ficus trees and a chrysanthemum\nhedge.\nThe menu: Lobster en Bellevue: Medallions of Veal with wild rice and\ngreen beans Nicoise: Endive and watercress salad with Port-Salut\ncheese; Fresh strawberry Mousse and Petits Fours; Demitasse.\nHoward Devron rasberry and his Orchestra will entertain in the Grand Hall\nfollowing Van Cliburn's performance.\n# # #\nGE/DAL R. FORD LIBRARY\nnot for release\nGuest List for AFTER-DINNER ENTERTAINMENT following the Dinner\nin honor of Their Majesties The Emperor and Empress of JAPAN on\nThursday, OCTOBER 2, 1975, at ten o'clock, The White House:\nMr. Hiroaki Fujii\nDirector, First North American Division, Ministry of Foreign\nAffairs\nHis Excellency Hideki Masaki\nInterpreter to His Majesty the Emperor\nThe Honorable Shigetaka Nishino\nChief Physician to His Majesty the Emperor\nMrs. Setsuko Suyama\nLady-in-Waiting to Her Majesty the Empress\nThe Honorable Hiroshi Yasuda\nCouncillor, Office of the Prime Minister\nMr. Yoshiro Yasui\nVice Grand Master of Ceremonies to His Majesty the Emperor\nMr. Ikuo Yokote\nPrivate Secretary to the Deputy Prime Minister\nMr. and Mrs. Mitsuro Donowaki\nMr. Donowaki--Counselor, Embassy of Japan\nThe Honorable Josaku Hasegawa and Mrs. Hasegawa\nMr. Hasegawa--Minister, Embassy of Japan\nThe Honorable Yoshio Kawahara and Mrs. Kawahara\nMr. Kawahara--Minister, Embassy of Japan\nThe Honorable Teru Kosugi and Mrs. Kosugi\nMr. Kosugi--Minister, Embassy of Japan\nMr. and Mrs. Ryuichiro Yamazaki\nMr. Yamazaki--Second Secretary, Embassy of Japan\nMr. George Richard Allison\nOffice of the Vice President\nMr. Jack Bangs\nDesigner, The Gazebo of New York\nMr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Barnes\nMr. Barnes--Member of the staff, NSC\nMr. and Mrs. Thomas D. Bell, Jr.\nBENALD R. FORD LIB:\nMr. Bell--Administrative Assistant to Senator W. E. Brock\nThe Honorable James H. Blair and Mrs. Blair\nMr. Blair--Assistant Secretary of HUD for Equal Opportunity\nMr. Warner W. Brandt\nEscort of Miss Jean Ringer\nMr. and Mrs. David G. Brown\nMr. Brown--Office of Japanese Affairs, Department of State\nMiss Kaye Burchell\nAdministrative Assistant to Representative D.L. Latta\nMr. David Chew\nEscort of Miss Pamela Powell\nMrs. Nancy Chotiner\nGuest of Mr. John Stiles\n-2- 10/2/75 at 10:00 p.m.\nMr. and Mrs. Clement Conger\nMr. Conger - White House Curator\nMr. and Mrs. Rust M. Deming\nMr. Deming--Office of Japanese Affairs, Department of State\nMr. and Mrs. Lester E. Edmond\nMr. Edmond Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of\nEast Asian and Pacific Affairs, Department of State\nMr. and Mrs. Edwin J. Feulner, Jr.\nMr. Feulner--Executive Director, Republican Research Committee,\nHouse of Representatives\nMiss Arlene Francis\nActress - \"Sabrina Fair\", National Theatre\nMr. and Mrs. Douglas L. Francisco\nMr. Francisco Administrative Assistant to Representative T. L. Carter\nThe Honorable Robert A. Goldwin and Mrs. Goldwin\nMr. Goldwin Consultant to the President\nMr. Robert L. Haught\nAdministrative Assistant to Senator H. Bellmon\nMrs. Susan Haught\nGuest of Mr. Robert Haught\nMr. and Mrs. Wade L. Headen\nMrs. Headen (Jackie) Mrs. Ford's Correspondence Office\nMr. and Mrs. Christian A. Herter, Jr.\nMrs. Herter (Susan) - Office of the Vice President\nMr. Robert Horton\nActor \"Sabrina Fair\", National Theatre\nMiss Katharine Houghton\nActress - \"Sabrina Fair\", National Theatre\nMr. and Mrs. Joseph S. Jenckes\nMr. enckes--Administrative Assistant to Senator P.J. Fannin\nThe Honorable Shiro Kashiwa and Mrs. Kashiwa\nMr. Kashiwa--Judge, U.S. Court of Claims\nMr. Harold J. Kennedy\nDirector \"Sabrina Fair\", National Theatre\nMr. and Mrs. David F. Lambertson\nMr. Lambertson--Deputy Director, Office of Japanese Affairs,\nDepartment of State\nMr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Lankford\nPool donors, Potomac, Maryland\nMr. and Mrs. Willie Leftwich\nMr. Leftwich--Attorney, Hudson, Leftwich & Davenport, D.C.\nMr. Sam Levene\nActor - \"Sabrina Fair\", National Theatre\n-3- 10/2/75 at 10:00 p.m.\nLieutenant Colonel Donald A. MacDonald and Mrs. MacDonald\nLt. MacDonald--Member of the staff, NSC\nMr. and Mrs. David MacEachron\nMr. MacEachron- Executive Director, Japan Society, New York City\nMr. and Mrs. Eugene Mapel\nMrs. Mapel (Virginia) Owner, The Gazebo of New York\nMr. and Mrs. Forrest E. Mars, Jr.\nPool donors, McLean, Virginia\nMr. and Mrs. Guy Martin\nPool donors, Washington, D.C.\nMr. and Mrs. Mike M. Masaoka\nMr. Masaoka Chairman, Executive Committee, Japan-America\nSociety, D. C.\nMr. and Mrs. Charles W. McBride\nMr. Administrative Assistant to Senator J.B. Johnston\nMr. and Mrs. Jack McDonald\nMr. McDonald--Consultant in Government Affairs, Jack McDonald\nAssociates, D. C.\nMiss Kathleen A. Miller\nGuest of Mr. Steve Sackman\nMr. Russell Nype\nActor - - \"Sabrina Fair\", National Theatre\nMr. and Mrs. Sylvester I. Olson\nMrs. Olson (Virginia) - Office of Congressional Relations\nMiss Maureen O'Sullivan\nActress \"Sabrina Fair\", National Theatre\nMiss Pamela Powell\nDirector of Youth Affairs\nMiss Jean Ringer\nResearch Assistant to Representative T.S. Foley\nMr. and Mrs. Gerrold Rosenberg\nMrs. Rosenberg--Executive Secretary to Representative E.A. Cederberg\nMr. Steven W. Sackman\nOffice of Senator C.P. Hansen\nMr. and Mrs.\noneo Sakai\nCorrespondent, Sankei Shimbun, D. C.\nDr. and Mrs. Gyorgy Sandor\nPalos Verdes Estates, California\nMr. and Mrs. Robert Schieffer\nMr. Schieffer- CBS, White House Correspondent\nMr. and Mrs. Donald E. Shasteen\nMr. Administrative Assistant to Senator C.T. Curtis\nMr. Walter J. Stewart\nEscort of Miss Virginia Yates\nMr. John R. Stiles\nConsultant to the President\n-4- 10/2/75 at 10:00 p.m.\nMr. and Mrs. Jerry Schecter\nMr. Schecter--former Time Magazine Bureau Chief in Tokyo\nMr. Hank Sweitzer\nAdministrative Assistant to Representative T. Bevill\nMr. and Mrs. Allen Taylor\nMr. Taylor--Director, U.S. - Japan Trade Council, D.C.\nMr. and Mrs. John J. Taylor\nMr. Taylor--Member of the staff, NSC\nThe Honorable William Thompson and Mrs. Thompson\nMr. Thompson--Judge, D. C. Superior Court\nDr. and Mrs. Horace Ward, Jr.\nDr. Ward - Physician, D. C.\nMr. and Mrs. James J. Wickel\nMr. Wickel--Public Affairs Staff, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific\nAffairs, Department of State\nMr. and Mrs. Glen A. Wilkinson\nPool donors, D.C.\nMiss Virginia Yates\nAdministrative Assistant to Senator R. C. Byrd\nMr. and Mrs. J. Owen Zurhellen, Jr.\nMr. Zurhellen--Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian\nand Pacific Affairs, Department of State\n(118)\n9:45pm\nCheck against delivery\nAddress of His Majesty the Emperor of Japan\nat the White House on October 2, 1975\nMr. President, Mrs. Ford,\nladies and gentlemen:\nI wish to offer my sincere appreciation for your most\nthoughtful words. I am deeply moved by your warm expression\nof goodwill toward Japan, and the people of Japan.\nYour visit to Japan last fall, Mr. President, wrote a\nbright and happy page in the 120-year-long history of Japanese-\nAmerican relations. Ever since your visit, the Empress and I\nhave been looking forward to this moment, when we might be\nwith you again, Mr. President, and with Mrs. Ford for the first\ntime.\nWe also thank you cordially for your gracious hospitality\nthis evening at the White House. We are mindful that, in\nthis House, great leaders of your country have presided since\nthe early years of the nation, making their indelible marks on\nnational and world history.\nOur first night in the United States we spent at Williamsburg,\nresting from our long journey and savoring, in the calm atmosphere\nof that picturesque town, historic reminders of the birth of this\nnation. Those associations are deepened for us tonight, in your\ncompany, and in this historic House.\nof\nSERALD\nFORD\nLIBHARY\n- 2\nI recall the wise counsel which your first President,\nGeorge Washington, gave the American people upon leaving the\noffice of the Presidency in 1796: \"Observe good faith and\njustice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony\nwith all.\"\nThis precept is still valid in today's world. It is\nan ideal shared by the Japanese people in their continuing\nefforts to cultivate peace and harmony within the international\ncommunity.\nIt has been my wish for many years to visit the United\nStates. There is one thing in particular which I have hoped\nto convey to the American people, should my visit be materialized.\nThat is, to extend in my own words my gratitude to the people\nof the United States for the friendly hand of goodwill and\nassistance their great country accorded us for our postwar\nreconstruction, immediately following that most unfortunate\nwar which I deeply deplore. Today a new generation, with no\npersonal memory of those years, is about to be in a majority in\nboth our societies. Yet I am confident that the story of the\ngenerosity and goodwill of the American people will be retold\nfrom generation to generation of Japanese for the rest of time.\nThe United States has made extraordinary contributions to\nthe well-being and progress of mankind during the past two\ncenturies. Today, on the eve of your Bicentennial, and amidst\nSERALD\nORIOR\nLIBRARY\n- 3 -\nthe shifting tides of history, the United States continues\nto stand for the high ideals which gave this nation birth.\nThe American people are still contributing to further\ndevelopment of this most vigorous and creative society, and\nto the building of peace and prosperity in the world.\nMankind is now engaged in a common endeavor, the creation\nof a just and peaceful international community. For this\nlofty objective, it is my hope that Japan and the United States,\nas two powerful and stable nations, cooperate actively on the\nbasis of even better understanding of each other through further\ndialogue, drawing strengths from the richness of our past\nhistories and traditions,\nLadies and gentlemen, I propose a toast to the health of\nthe President of the United States of America and Mrs. Ford,\nand to the American people on the threshold of your third\nglorious century as a nation.\nBETALD\nLIBRARY\nnot for release\nGuest List for AFTER-DINNER ENTERTAINMENT following the Dinner\nin honor of Their Majesties The Emperor and Empress of JAPAN on\nThursday, OCTOBER 2, 1975, at ten o'clock, The White House:\nMr. Hiroaki Fujii\nDirector, First North American Division, Ministry of Foreign\nAffairs\nHis Excellency Hideki Masaki\nInterpreter to His Majesty the Emperor\nThe Honorable Shigetaka Nishino\nChief Physician to His Majesty the Emperor\nMrs. Setsuko Suyama\nLady-in-Waiting to Her Majesty the Empress\nThe Honorable Hiroshi Yasuda\nCouncillor, Office of the Prime Minister\nMr. Yoshiro Yasui\nVice Grand Master of Ceremonies to His Majesty the Emperor\nMr. Ikuo Yokote\nPrivate Secretary to the Deputy Prime Minister\nMr. and Mrs. Mitsuro Donowaki\nMr. Donowaki--Counselor, Embassy of Japan\nThe Honorable Josaku Hasegawa and Mrs. Hasegawa\nMr. Hasegawa--Minister, Embassy of Japan\nThe Honorable Yoshio Kawahara and Mrs. Kawahara\nMr. Kawahara--Minister, Embassy of Japan\nThe Honorable Teru Kosugi and Mrs. Kosugi\nMr. Kosugi--Minister, Embassy of Japan\nMr. and Mrs. Ryuichiro Yamazaki\nMr. Yamazaki--Second Secretary, Embassy of Japan\nMr. George Richard Allison\nOffice of the Vice President\nMr. Jack Bangs\nSERVICE FORD LIBRARY\nDesigner, The Gazebo of New York\nMr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Barnes\nMr. Barnes--Member of the staff, NSC\nMr. and Mrs. Thomas D. Bell, Jr.\nMr. Bell--Administrative Assistant to Senator W.E. Brock\nThe Honorable James H. Blair and Mrs. Blair\nMr. Blair--Assistant Secretary of HUD for Equal Opportunity\nMr. Warner W. Brandt\nEscort of Miss Jean Ringer\nMr. and Mrs. David G. Brown\nMr. Brown--Office of Japanese Affairs, Department of State\nMiss Kaye Burchell\nAdministrative Assistant to Representative D.L. Latta\nMr. David Chew\nEscort of Miss Pamela Powell\nMrs. Nancy Chotiner\nGuest of Mr. John Stiles\n-2- 10/2/75 at 10:00 p.m.\nMr. and Mrs. Clement Conger\nMr. Conger White House Curator\nMr. and Mrs. Rust M. Deming\nMr. Deming--Office of Japanese Affairs, Department of State\nMr. and Mrs. Lester E. Edmond\nMr. Edmond Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of\nEast Asian and Pacific Affairs, Department of State\nMr. and Mrs. Edwin J. Feulner, Jr.\nMr. Feulner--Executive Director, Republican Research Committee,\nHouse of Representatives\nMiss Arlene Francis\nActress \"Sabrina Fair\", National Theatre\nMrs\n$\nRepresentative\n&\nT.L.\nCarter\nThe Honorable Robert A. Goldwin and Mrs. Goldwin\nMr. Goldwin--Consultant to the President\nMr. Robert L. Haught\nAdministrative Assistant to Senator H. Bellmon\nMrs. Susan Haught\nGuest of Mr. Robert Haught\nMr. and Mrs. Wade L. Headen\nMrs. Headen (Jackie) Mrs. Ford's Correspondence Office\nMr. and Mrs. Christian A. Herter, Jr.\nMrs. Herter (Susan) - Office of the Vice President\nMr. Robert Horton\nActor \"Sabrina Fair\", National Theatre\nMiss Katharine Houghton\nActress - \"Sabrina Fair\", National Theatre\nMr. and Mrs. Joseph S. Jenckes\nMr. Jenckes--Administrative Assistant to Senator P.J. Fannin\nThe Honorable Shiro Kashiwa and Mrs. Kashiwa\nMr. Kashiwa--Judge, U.S. Court of Claims\nMr. Harold J. Kennedy\nDirector \"Sabrina Fair\", National Theatre\nMr. and Mrs. David F. Lambertson\nMr. Lambertson--Deputy Director, Office of Japanese Affairs,\nDepartment of State\nMr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Lankford\nPool donors, Potomac, Maryland\nMr. and Mrs. Willie Leftwich\nMr. Leftwich--Attorney, Hudson, Leftwich & Davenport, D.C.\nMr. Sam Levene\nActor- - \"Sabrina Fair\", National Theatre\n-3- 10/2/75 at 10:00 p.m.\nLieutenant Colonel Donald A. MacDonald and Mrs. MacDonald\nLt. MacDonald--Member of the staff, NSC\nMr. and Mrs. David MacEachron\nMr. MacEachron- Executive Director, Japan Society, New York City\nMr. and Mrs. Eugene Mapel\nMrs. Mapel (Virginia) - Owner, The Gazebo of New York\nMr. and Mrs. Forrest E. Mars, Jr.\nPool donors, McLean, Virginia\nMr. and Mrs. Guy Martin\nPool donors, Washington, D. C.\nMr. and Mrs. Mike M. Masaoka\nMr. Masaoka--Chairman, Executive Committee, Japan-America\nSociety, D. C.\nMr. and Mrs. Charles W. McBride\nMr. McBride--Administrative Assistant to Senator J.B. Johnston\nMr. and Mrs. Jack McDonald\nMr. McDonald--Consultant in Government Affairs, Jack McDonald\nAssociates, D. C.\nMiss Kathleen A. Miller\nGuest of Mr. Steve Sackman\nMr. Russell Nype\nActor \"Sabrina Fair\", National Theatre\nMr. and Mrs. Sylvester I. Olson\nMrs. Olson (Virginia)-- Office of Congressional Relations\nMiss Maureen O'Sullivan\nActress \"Sabrina Fair\", National Theatre\nMiss Pamela Powell\nDirector of Youth Affairs\nMiss Jean Ringer\nResearch Assistant to Representative T.S. Foley\nMr. and Mrs. Gerrold Rosenberg\nMrs. Rosenberg--Executive Secretary to Representative E.A. Cederberg\nMr. Steven W. Sackman\nOffice of Senator C.P. Hansen\nMr. and Mrs.\nVoneo Sakai\nCorrespondent, Sankei Shimbun, D.C.\nDr. and Mrs. Gyorgy Sandor\nPalos Verdes Estates, California\nMr. and Mrs. Robert Schieffer\nMr. Schieffer CBS, White House Correspondent\nMr. and Mrs. Donald E. Shasteen\nMr. Shasteen Administrative Assistant to Senator C.T. Curtis\nMr. Walter J. Stewart\nEscort of Miss Virginia Yates\nMr. John R. Stiles\nConsultant to the President\n-4- 10/2/75 at 10:00 p.m.\nMr. and Mrs. Jerry Schecter\nMr. Schecter--former Time Magazine Bureau Chief in Tokyo\nMr. Hank Sweitzer\nAdministrative Assistant to Representative T. Bevill\nMr. and Mrs. Allen Taylor\nMr. Taylor--Director, U.S. - Japan Trade Council, D.C.\nMr. and Mrs. John J. Taylor\nMr. Taylor--Member of the staff, NSC\nThe Honorable William Thompson and Mrs. Thompson\nMr. Thompson--Judge, D.C. Superior Court\nDr. and Mrs. Horace Ward, Jr.\nDr. Ward - Physician, D.C.\nMr. and Mrs. James J. Wickel\nMr. Wickel--Public Affairs Staff, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific\nAffairs, Department of State\nMr. and Mrs. Glen A. Wilkinson\nPool donors, D. C.\nMiss Virginia Yates\nAdministrative Assistant to Senator R. C. Byrd\nMr. and Mrs. J. Owen Zurhellen, Jr.\nMr. Zurhellen--Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian\nand Pacific Affairs, Department of State\n(118)\nDINNER Thursday, October 2, 1975 at 8 p.m. (Emperor and Empress of Japan) 114 = White tie\nMrs. Vining\nMr. Scaife\nMr. Watson\nMrs. Wilkins\nRev. Sullivan\nMr. Wilkins\nMrs. Sullivan\nMrs. Tanaka\nMr. Rockefeller\nMr. Millspaugh\nX Mrs. Cliburn\nMr. Tanaka\nMr. Miller\nMr. Naka\nMrs. Mosbacher\nMr. McDonald\nMrs, Scaife\nMiss Rogers\nMrs. Rockefeller\nMr. Melton\nMr. Hyland\nMrs. Miller\nMr. Mori\nMr. Mosbacher\nMr. Malloy\nMrs. Lowe\nMrs. Korp\nMr. Georgine\nMrs. Malloy\nMrs. Melton\n1Mrs. Chennault\nDr. Kasuga\nMr. Corcoran\nMr. Lowe\nMrs. Kasuga\nMr. Korp\nMr. Fernandez C.\nMrs. Everett\nMrs. Cooper\nMrs. Hyland\nMr. Chandler\nMrs. Georgine\nMiss Graham\nMr. Cliburn\nMr. Black\nMr. Frowick\nMrs. Fernandez C.\nMr. Everett\nMr. Carter\nMrs. N. Chandle\nMrs. Carter\nMr. Aaron\nMrs. Sulzberger\nMrs. O. Chandler\nMrs. Boe\nGen. Scowcroft\nMr. Sulzberger\nMrs. Buchanan\nMr. Boe\nMr. Buchanan\nProf. Reischauer\nMrs. Aaron\nMrs. Reischauer\nMr. Habib\nMrs. Margaret Brod\nMrs. Black\nMrs. Habib\nAmb. Hodgson\nMr. Ingersoll\nMrs. Catto\nTH Seiya Nishida\nTH Yoshihiro Tokugawa Mrs. Nishida\nChief of Protocol\nMrs. Scoweroft\nMrs. Frey\nRep. Rousselot\nHE Naraichi Fujiyam\nMrs. Ingersoll\nMrs. Hodgson\nRep Mineta\nMrs. Rousselot\nHE Morio Yukawa\nRep. Matsunaga\nMrs. Wilson\nHE Hiroshi Uchida.\nMrs. Matsunaga\nMrs. Mineta\nMrs. Morgan\nSen. Morgan\nRep. Frey\nSen. Brock\nRep. Wilson\nHE Sukemasa Iric\nMrs. Inouye\nMrs. Wm. Brock\nSen. Inouye\nMrs. Kitashirakawa\nSen. Scott\nMrs. Hartmann\nAmb. of Japan\nMrs. Blackmun\nSecy of State\nHM Empress of Japan\nTHE PRESIDENT\nHM Emperor Japan\nMRS. FORD\nHE Takeo Fukuda\nMrs. Kissinger\nMr. Justice Blackmur\nMrs. Yasukawa\nMr. Hartmann\nMrs. Scott\nHE Takeshi Usumi\nFor immediate release\nTuesday, Sept. 30, 1975\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\nOffice of the Press Secretary to Mrs. Ford\nVan Cliburn has been selected by the President and Mrs. Ford\nto entertain at the white tie dinner honoring the Emperor and\nEmpress of Japan Thursday, Oct. 2.\nVan Cliburn has performed for the past five Presidents and at\nState dinners for Presidents Nixon and Johnson. He performed\nat Inauguration ceremonies for President Johnson in 1965 and\nPresident Nixon in 1973.\nHe typically makes about 60 appearances in the United States and\nCanada each season, and his 1975-76 tour is currently sold out.\nHe visited Japan this summer and returned since to perform at\nfour of the major US festivals: the Robin Hood Dell in Philadelphia;\nthe Beethoven Marathon at the Hollywood Bowl; The Meadow\nBrook Festival in Michigan; and the Cleveland Orchestra's\nBlossom Festival.\nAccording to the Celebrity Register, Van Cliburn has one of the\nlargest followings of any concert pianist on the circuit and is one of\nthe biggest sellers in the field of classical recordings.\nAlthough he had won many musical accolades and prizes prior to\n1958, it was his triumph that year at the International Tchaikovsky\nCompetition in Moscow that gained Van Cliburn his reputation\naccross the country. The Texan, then 24, was honored upon his\nreturn with the first ticker-tape parade New York had ever given to\na classical musician. He went on to be the first foreigner to ever\nplay in the Kremlin's Palace of Congresses.\nVan Cliburn's first public appearance was at the age of four at\nShreveport's Dodd College. Born in Shreveport to Mr. and Mrs.\nHarvey Levan Cliburn, he had learned to play the piano at age three,\nFor 14 years, he studied only under his mother, a talented pianist\n(Rildia Bee O'Bryan Cliburn) who had been a student of Arthur\nFriedheim, a pupil of Franz Liszt.\nThe family moved to Kilgore, Tex. when Cliburn was six. When he\nwas 12, he won the state-wide young pianists' competition and made\nhis orchestral debut with the Houston Symphony. He made his\nCarnegie Hall debut as winner of the National Music Festival Award\nthe following year.\nQERALD TREADY\nHe won a number of significant awards in the following years, most\nnotably the Edgar M. Leventritt Award in 1954 at age 20. The\ncompetition is held annually, but no prizes awarded unless the\njudges feel there is a worthy recipient. Van Cliburn was the first\nwinner in five years.\nHe established his international reputation in Moscow four years\nlater and has been performing for audiences around the world since.\n####\nFor release after 8:30 p.m.\nOctober 2, 1975\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\nOffice of the Press Secretary to Mrs. Ford\nThe President and Mrs. Ford, acting on behalf of the American\npeople, are presenting a pair of Greater Sandhill Cranes to\nthe people of Japan on the occasion of the state visit of the\nEmperor and Empress of Japan. The gift is a token of the\nfriendship of the Japanese and American people.\nThe President informed the Emperor and Empress in the Yellow\nOval Room preceding the white tie dinner at the White House\nin their honor.\nIn Japan, cranes are revered as a symbol of good fortune,\nlong life and wisdom. The two cranes are being shipped to\nTokyo, where they will be placed in the Ueno Zoo, the national\nZOO of Japan.\nThe birds, a yearling male and female, have been bred at the\nInterior Department's Patuxent Wildlife Research Center near\nLaurel, Md. The Greater Sandhill Crane is native to North\nAmerica and is common in southeastern Oregon, southeastern\nIdaho and the Great Lakes Region.\nIn Japan, the Japanese crane has been declared a national\nmonument by the Japanese Government.\n####\nIn addition to the Greater Sandhill Cranes, the President and Mrs.\nFord are presenting an inscribed photograph taken during the arrival\nceremony. The inscription: \"To your Majesties the Emperor and\nEmpress. With great pleasure in welcoming you to Washington.\nGerald R. Ford Betty Ford October 2. 1975. 11\nMrs. Ford also presented the Empress with the multi-colored\nscart bearing her signature which she designed earlier this year.\nL, 1975\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\nOffice of the Press Secretary to Mrs. Ford\nGifts presented Oct. 2, 1975 by the Emperor and Empress of\nJapan to the President and Mrs. Ford.\nTo the President:\nA painting entitled \"Summer Mountain with White Cloud\" by\nKaii Higashiyama, a member of the Japanese Academy of Art.\nThe picture depicts a mountainside covered with blue-green\nfir trees partially covered with a white cloud.\nTo Mrs. Ford:\nAn Arita porcelain vase handmade by Imaemon Imaizumi XII.\nIt is a blue vase decorated with red and yellow flowers. It\nis 11 1/2\" tall and 9 1/2\" wide.\nA length of silk brocade woven by special command of Her\nMajesty the Empress. It is made of silk produced in the\nImperial Cocoonery within the gardens of the Imperial Palace.\nIt is pale blue with tiny silver threads. The design is a stylized\nfloral over-all pattern.\nTo the President and Mrs. Ford:\nA signed photograph of the Emperor and Empress in a silver\nframe with the Emperor's gold chrysanthemum seal. This is\nthe first time their Imperial Majesties have presented a color\ninformal photograph taken in the Imperial Gardens.\n# # #\nGERALD FORD LIBRARY\nGUEST LIST FOR THE DINNER TO BE GIVEN BY THE PRESIDENT AND\nMRS. FORD IN HONOR OF THEIR MAJESTIES THE EMPEROR AND\nEMPRESS OF JAPAN ON THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1975, AT EIGHT\nO'CLOCK, THE WHITE HOUSE\nTheir Majesties The Emperor and Empress of Japan\nHis Excellency Takeo Fukuda\nDeputy Prime Minister\nHis Excellency The Ambassador of Japan\nand Mrs. Yasukawa\nHis Excellency Takeshi Usami\nGrand Stewart, Imperial Household Agency\nHis Excellency Sukemasa Irie\nGrand Chamberlain to His Majesty the Emperor\nHis Excellency Morio Yukawa\nGrand Master of Ceremonies to His Majesty the Emperor\nHis Excellency Naraichi Fujiyama\nAmbassador, Press Secretary to His Majesty the Emperor\nThe Honorable Yoshihiro Tokugawa\nVice-Grand Chamberlain to His Majesty the Emperor\nMrs. Sachiko Kitashirakawa\nChief Lady-in-Waiting to Her Majesty the Empress\nHis Excellency Hiroshi Uchida\nAmbassador, Chief of Protocol, Ministry of Foreign Affairs\nThe Honorable Seiya Nishida and Mrs. Nishida\nMinister, Embassy of Japan\nThe Secretary of State and Mrs. Kissinger\nMr. Justice Blackmun and Mrs. Blackmun\nThe Honorable Robert T. Hartmann, Counsellor to the President,\nand Mrs. Hartmann\nThe Honorable Hugh Scott, United States Senate,\nand Mrs. Scott (Pennsylvania)\nThe Honorable Daniel K. Inouye, United States Senate,\nand Mrs. Inouye (Hawaii)\nThe Honorable William E. Brock, III, United States Senate,\nand Mrs. Brock (Tennessee)\nThe Honorable Robert B. Morgan, United States Senate,\nand Mrs. Morgan (North Carolina)\nThe Honorable Bob Wilson, House of Representatives,\nand Mrs. Wilson (California)\nThe Honorable Spark M. Matsunaga, House of Representatives,\nand Mrs. Matsunaga (Hawaii)\nThe Honorable Louis Frey, Jr., House of Representatives,\nand Mrs. Frey (Florida)\nThe Honorable John Rousselot, House of Representatives,\nand Mrs. Rousselot (California)\nThe Honorable Norman Y. Mineta, House of Representatives,\nand Mrs. Mineta (California)\nThe Honorable Robert S. Ingersoll, Deputy Secretary of State,\nand Mrs. Ingersoll\nThe Honorable James D. Hodgson, American Ambassador to Japan,\nand Mrs. Hodgson\nThe Chief of Protocol and Mrs. Catto\nLieutenant General Brent Scowcroft, USAF, Deputy Assistant to the\nPresident for National Security Affairs, and Mrs. Scowcroft\nThe Honorable Philip C. Habib, Assistant Secretary of State for East\nAsian and Pacific Affairs, and Mrs. Habib\nThe Honorable Edwin O. Reischauer and Mrs. Reischauer\nMr. Reischauer is Professor, Harvard University and a former\nAmerican Ambassador to Japan\n- 2 - 10/2/75\nMr. and Mrs. Henry Aaron, Milwaukee, Wisconsin\nMr. Aaron is with the Milwaukee Brewers Baseball Club\nMr. and Mrs. Jack E. Black, Norman, Oklahoma\nMr. Black is President, American Exchange Bank & Trust Co.\nMr. and Mrs. Archie R. Boe, Northbrook, Illinois\nMr. Boe is Chairman, Allstate Insurance Co.\nMrs. Margaret Brock, Los Angeles, California\nThe Honorable Patrick J. Buchanan and Mrs. Buchanan, Washington, D. C.\nMr. Buchanan is a syndicated columnist\nMr. and Mrs. Edward W. Carter, Los Angeles, California\nMr. Carter is Chairman, Broadway-Hale Stores, Inc.\nMrs. Norman Chandler, Los Angeles, California\nChairman, Board of Governors, Los Angeles Performing Arts Council\nMr. and Mrs. Otis Chandler, Los Angeles, California\nMr. Chandler is Publisher, Los Angeles Times\nThe Honorable Anna Chennault, Washington, D. C.\nVice President for International Affairs, Flying Tiger Line, Inc., and\nVice Chairman, National Republican Heritage Groups Council\nMrs. Harvey L. Cliburn, Shreveport, Louisiana\nMr. Van Cliburn, Shreveport, Louisiana\nConcert Pianist\nMrs. Dolores Cooper, Baltimore, Maryland\nGuest of Mr. S. Kirk Millspaugh\nMr. Thomas G. Corcoran, Washington, D. C.\nSenior partner with the law firm of Corcoran, Youngman & Rowe;\nGuest of Mrs. Anna Chennault\nMr. and Mrs. Chad Everett, Chatsworth, California\nMr. Everett is an actor; Mrs. Everett is actress, Shelby Grant\nMr. and Mrs. Carlos Fernandez Cano, Miami, Florida\nMr. Halston Frowick, New York, New York\nFashion designer\nMr. and Mrs. Robert A. Georgine, Washington, D. C.\nMr. Georgine is President, Building & Construction Trades\nDepartment, AFL-CIO\nMiss Martha Graham, New York, New York\nDirector, Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance, Inc.\nMr. and Mrs. Lawrence A. Hyland, Los Angeles, California\nMr. Hyland is General Manager, Hughes Aircraft Co.\nDr. and Mrs. Kazumi Kasuga, Albuquerque, New Mexico\nDr. Kasuga is Area Director for Albuquerque, Indian Health Service\nMr. and Mrs. William R. Korp, Venice, Florida\nMr. Korp is partner with the law firm of Korp and Wheeler\nMr. and Mrs. A. Lynn Lowe, Texarkana, Arkansas\nMr. Lowe is Republican State Chairman for Arkansas\nMr. and Mrs. John C. Malloy, Miami, Florida\nMr. Malloy is attorney with the John Cyril Malloy firm\nMr. Ellice McDonald, Jr., Montchanin, Delaware\nGuest of Mrs. Elizabeth Vining\nMr. and Mrs. Rollan D. Melton, Reno, Nevada\nMr. Melton is President, Speidel Newspapers, Inc.\nMr. and Mrs. Paul Miller, Pittsford, New York\nMr. Miller is Chairman, Gannett Company and Chairman,\nAssociated Press\nMr. S. Kirk Millspaugh, Baltimore, Maryland\nChairman, Samuel Kirk and Son, Inc.\nMr. Teruo Mori\nCorrespondent, Yomiuri\nMr. and Mrs. Robert Mosbacher, Houston, Texas\nIndependent oil operator\nMr. Akira Naka\nWashington Bureau Representative, Kyodo newspaper\nMr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, 3d, New York, New York\nMr. Rockefeller is Chairman, Japan Society, Inc.\n- 3 - 10/2/75\nMiss Ginger Rogers, Shady Cove, Oregon\nActress\nMr. and Mrs. Richard M. Scaife, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania\nMr. Scaife is a publisher\nThe Reverend Leon H. Sullivan and Mrs. Sullivan, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania\nMr. Sullivan is Chairman, Opportunities Industrialization Centers of\nAmerica and Minister, Zion Baptist Church\nMr. and Mrs. Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, New York, New York\nMr. Sulzberger is President and Publisher, The New York Times\nMr. and Mrs. H. William Tanaka, Bethesda, Maryland\nMr. Tanaka is member of the law firms of Tanaka and Walders,\nWashington, D. C. and Battle, Fowler, Lidstone, Jaffin, Pierce\nand Kheel, New York, New York\nMrs. Elizabeth Gray Vining, Kennett Square, Pennsylvania\nFormer tutor to the Crown Prince\nMr. John Watson, Malibu, California\nGuest of Mrs. Margaret Brock\nMr. and Mrs. C. Howard Wilkins, Jr., Wichita, Kansas\nMr. Wilkins is Managing Partner, Maverick Company\nFOR YOUR USE AND INFORMATION\nOCTOBER 1, 1975\nOffice of the White House Press Secretary\nNOTICE TO THE PRESS\nPRESS COVERAGE PLANS FOR WHITE HOUSE CEREMONIES DURING\nTHE VISIT OF THE EMPEROR AND EMPRESS OF JAPAN TO\nWASHINGTON\nBecause of the large number of reporters and photographers covering\nthe White House events involved in the visit of Their Majesties, it\nwill be necessary to have far more pool coverage than is usual.\nFollowing is a list of events, with coverage as designated. Posted\nseparately is a sign-up list for evening pools. Because of time and\nspace limitations, each person can be part of only one pool in the\nmorning and only one pool in the evening. Please indicate organization\nwith name.\nPOOL PASSES FOR THE ORNING EVENTS WILL BE DISTRIBUTED IN THE\nPRESS ROOM AT 9:15 A. M., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1975. POOLS\nASSEMBLE IN THE PRESS AREA ON THE SOUTH LAWN AT THE\nCONCLUSION OF THE ARRIVAL CEREMONY, OR -- IN THE EVENT\nOF RAIN -- IN THE PRESS ROOM AT 9:45 A. M.\nEVENING EVENT POOL PASSES WILL BE DISTRIBUTED IN THE PRESS\nROOM AT 7:00 P. M., THURSDAY WITH POOLS LEAVING FROM THE\nPRESS ROOM.\nCOVERAGE FOR MORNING EVENTS, THURSDAY OCTOBER 2.\n10:30 A. M. Arrival Ceremony, South Lawn\nOPEN COVERAGE\n11:00 A. M. Pools 1 & 2 leave from South Lawn Press area for\npre-positioning\n11:15 A. M. Meeting of the President and Mrs. Ford with Their\nMajesties, The Red Room\nPOOL NUMBER 1 (Orange passes)\n(25 members from each country -- 18\nphotographers - 7 writers)\n11:30 A. M. Tour of the Rose Garden\nPOOL NUMBER 2 (Green passes)\n(30 members from each country 20 photographers -\n10 writers)\n11:45 A. M. Departure of Their Majesties from South Lawn Drive\nOPEN COVERAGE\nIN THE EVENT OF INCLEMENT WEATHER, THE ARRIVAL CEREMONY\nWILL BE HELD AT THE NORTH PORTICO AND IN THE EAST ROOM\nWITH NO ROSE GARDEN TOUR. IN THAT EVENT THE FOLLOWING\nPROCEDURE WILL APPLY:\n10:30 A. M. Arrival of Their Majesties, the North Portico\nPOOL NUMBER 1\n(MORE)\n- 2 -\n10:35 A.M. Exchange of Remarks Between the President\nand the Emperor, The East Room\nPOOL NUMBER 2\n10:55 A.M. Meeting of the President and Mrs. Ford with Their\nMajesties, The Red Room\nPOOL NUMBER 1\nEVENING EVENTS\n7:30 P.M. Arrival of guests, South Portico\nPOOL NUMBER 3 (No passes)\n(TV pool crew plus 15 members from each\ncountry -- 8 photographers - 7 writers.\nPool leaves Press Room at 7:25 p.m. -- dark\nbusiness suits or street dresses.)\n8:00 P. M. Arrival of Their Majesties, North Portico\nPOOL NUMBER 4 (Red passes)\n(TV pool crew, plus 25 members from each\ncountry, -- 17 photographers - 8 writers,\ndark business suits or street dresses. Pool\nleaves Press Room at 7:45 p. m.)\n8:10 P.M. Entrance from Grand Staircase, North Lobby\nPOOL NUMBER 4\n8:15 P.M. Reception for dinner guests, The East Room\nPOOL NUMBER 5 (Gray passes)\n(2 TV camera crews, plus 6 photographers -\n15 writers from each country. White tie\nor long dress required. Pool leaves Press\nRoom at 7:40 p. m.)\n8:40 P. M. State Dinner, The State Dining Room\nPOOL NUMBER 6 (Blue passes)\n(2 TV camera crews, 6 photographers from each\ncountry. White tie or long dress required.\nPool leaves from Press Room at 8:15 p.m.\nCoverage will include photos at start of dinner\nand the exchange of toasts. The remarks will\nbe piped into the Press Room speaker system\nand available for recording on the mult in\nthe Press Room.\n(MORE)\n- 3 -\n10:30 P.M. Entertainment, The East Room\nPOOL NUMBER 5\n(Members of pool number 5 may return\nto the Press Room at conclusion of the\nreception to hear the exchange of toasts if\nthey wish, but must return to the East\nRoom at conclusion of the toasts. Coverage\nwill include all numbers in the entertainment.)\nNOTE: Different colored pool passes will be used for each\npool. Please make sure your pool pass color corresponds\nwith the number of the pool you are with.\n#\n#\n#\nFor immediate release\nWednesday, Oct. 1, 1975\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\nOffice of the Press Secretary to Mrs. Ford\nThe President and Mrs. Ford will host a white tie dinner honoring\nthe Emperor and Empress of Japan Thursday, Oct. 2 at 8 p.m.\nPianist Van Cliburn will entertain in the East Room following the\ndinner.\nThis is the first time there has been a State visit in the US by\na reigning Japanese emperor.\nThe accent in the State Dining Roomwill be in deep crimson red and\nsterling silver. The tables will be set in a formal E-shaped\narrangement and draped in white linen.\nA collection of 12 handcrafted American silver art pieces will\nbe the focal point of the table, with other silver highlights\nprovided by two dozen candlestciks and candelabras. The\ncandleholders, all 24\" high, will be filled with long white tapers\nproviding candlelight at eye-level as guests enter the room.\nThe sterling art collection and candleholders will be entwined by\na full garland of crimson blossoms down the center of the white\ntablecloth. The garland will festoon the candèlabras as well, and\nflowers in crimson hues will also highlight the silver collectionpieces.\nThe wall sconces in the State Dining Room will also be decorated with\nthe garland effect. The Johnson china and Morgantown crystal will be used.\nThe decorative silver pieces are part of a collection handcrafted by\nSamuel Kirk & Son of Baltimore, America's oldest silversmith.\nThe collection includes Federal, Empire and Victorian designs from\n1815. One of the most important pieces to be displayed at the\ncenter of the E between the President and the Emperor is one of\ntwo goblets commissioned from Kirk in 1824 by the Marquis de LaFayette.\nOther pieces range from a wine ewer to a milk jug.\nThe Cross Hall will hold tubs of fresh crimson chrysanthemums\narr anged in a clipped hedged effect. Accents will be provided by round\ntop ficus trees and white chrysanthemums. The stage in the East Room\nwill be surrounded by a garden setting of ficus trees and a chrysanthemum\nhedge.\nThe menu: Lobster en Bellevue; Medallions of Veal with wild rice and\ngreen beans Nicoise: Endive and watercress salad with Port-Salut\ncheese; Fresh raspberry mousse and petits fours: Demitasse.\nGERALD FORD LIBRARY\nHoward Devron and his Orchestra will entertain for dancing in\nthe Grand Hall following Van Cliburn's performance.\n# # #\nemperor red\nof The Gageto (of New York)\nvolunteering his services\nJack Bangs (212) 832 7077 Zagebo\nvery elegant + formal- understated - in\n(rich red) very good taste- in DR collection Kirk Selver\n12 pieces (not beg o showy rich t but ut quality) +2 doz,contemp,cendlet d canabr\nfrom\ndeep Crimson red coles garlands of flowers wh entwine along table\nt up thru (festoon the candleabras). art collect pieces will be\nhighlighted W/ flowers in crimson hues tall - wall sconces festooned\ngarland effect to cary out theme promenent candleabra 24\" 5 each\n& 462 4334 society\nthoward Beuson for dancing after\n(6)-piece Orchestra\n$\nHotel musical derector of the Shoreham americano\ntableclath- white / E shaped table\ncontemp candlestick holder\n(113 max) arrangement\nFORD\nin a formal E shaped table-white linen GENALD\nLIGHARY\narranged in a Johnson - margentan- -\nhedges of fresh crimson chyysanthemum along cross hall\ntubs clipped off hedge effect\nsome white chys round top - ficustrees (royal flower of Japan)\nEast\nRoom (purroundg accent stage a garden setting of rountop ficess trees t chripan\nhedeg (with an white accent afwhite )\nTHE CHIEF OF PROTOCOL\nDEPARTMENT OF STATE\nWASHINGTON\nSeptember 23, 1975\nMEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT\nSUBJECT:\nOfficial Gift Exchange during the visit of\nTheir Majesties the Emperor and the Empress of Japan\nWe have been informed that the Emperor and the Empress\nwill present an inscribed photograph and a contemporary\npainting by Higashigama to you and Mrs. Ford during their\nupcoming visit. In addition, the Empress is planning to\npresent a vase and a piece of silk material to Mrs. Ford.\nI would like to propose that you present to the Japanese\npeople, on the occasion of the visit of the Emperor and the\nEmpress, a pair of greater Sandhill cranes. The greater\nSandhill crane is native to North America and is common in\nsoutheastern Oregon, southeastern Idaho and the Great Lakes\nregion. (A photograph of the cranes is attached.) These\ncranes, a yearling male and female, were raised from eggs\nat the Patuxent Wildlife Center near Laurel, Maryland; and\nin suitable facilities will eventually breed. This gift\nseems particularly appropriate because the crane signifies\nfelicity, longevity and wisdom to the Japanese people. We\nhave indicated that this gift is being considered and have\nbeen informed that it would be a most appreciated gift. With\nyour approval, arrangements will be made to have the cranes\nshipped to Tokyo where they will be placed in the Ueno Zoo\nwhich functions as the national ZOO of Japan. The Department\nof Interior will make arrangements for the safe transportation\nof the cranes. The announcement of this gift will be made\non the evening of the dinner honoring the Emperor and the\nEmpress. It is hoped that you will be able to inform Their\nMajesties of this gift during the period you spend together\nprior to the dinner and it will be released to the press\nsimultaneously.\nAlso, I suggest that you present an inscribed photograph\ntaken during the arrival ceremony. The following is a\nsuggested inscription:\n2.\n\"To Your Majesties the Emperor and the Empress\nWith great pleasure in welcoming you to Washington.\nGerald R. Ford\nBetty Ford\nOctober 2, 1975\"\nIn addition, I would like to suggest that Mrs. Ford present\nthe Empress with one of the scarfs designed by Frankie Welch\nfor her use.\nHenry\nPRESS\nDEPARTMENT OF STATE\nSeptember 26, 1975\nNo. 505\nPROGRAM FOR THE STATE VISIT TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA\nOF\nTHEIR MAJESTIES THE EMPEROR AND EMPRESS OF JAPAN\nTuesday, September 30\nMorning\nTheir Majesties the Emperor and Empress\nof Japan and their official party will\narrive at Patrick Henry International\nAirport, Newport News, Virginia, via\nSpecial Imperial Flight.\nArrival at Colonial Williamsburg\nPrivate afternoon and evening\nWednesday, October 1\nPrivate day.\nThursday, October 2\nMorning\nTheir Majesties the Emperor and Empress\nof Japan and their official party will\ndepart Colonial Williamsburg for\nWashington, DC.\nArrival at Andrews Air Force Base,\nMaryland\n10:30 a.m.\nArrival at the White House where Their\nMajesties the Emperor and Empress of\nJapan will be greeted by the President of\nthe United States and Mrs. Ford, the\nSecretary of State and Mrs. Kissinger, the\nActing Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of\nStaff and Mrs. Jones, the Dean of the\nDiplomatic Corps and Mrs. Sevilla-Sacasa,\nthe Ambassador to Japan and Mrs. Hodgson\nand the Mayor of the District of Columbia\nand Mrs. Washington.\nMilitary honors will be rendered.\nAfternoon\nTheir Majesties the Emperor and Empress of\nJapan will have an informal lunch at the\nEmbassy Residence.\nFor Further information contact:\n-2-\nPR#505\nThursday, October 2 (Continued)\nAfternoon\nTheir Majesties the Emperor and Empress of\nJapan will arrive at the Smithsonian Insti-\ntution, National Museum of Natural History,\nConstitution Avenue at 10th Street, North-\nWest, West Entrance.\nMr. Dillon Ripley, Secretary of Smithsonian\nInstitution, and Dr. Porter Kier, Director,\nNational Museum of Natural History, will\ngreet them. The Emperor will be escorted\nby Mr. Ripley and Dr. Kier through the\nNational Museum of Natural History.\nAfternoon\nThe Empress will proceed to the\nFreer Gallery of Art. Mrs. Dillon\nRipley and Dr. Harold P. Stern,\nDirector of the Freer Gallery of\nArt, will greet and escort the\nEmpress on a tour of the Gallery.\nPrivate afternoon.\n8:00 p.m.\nThe President of the United States and Mrs.\nFord will give a dinner in honor of Their\nMajesties the Emperor and Empress of Japan\nat the White House.\nDress: White tie.\nFriday, October 3\nMorning\nTheir Majesties the Emperor and Empress of\nJapan will arrive at Arlington National\nCemetary where the Emperor will lay a wreath\nat the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.\nTheir Majesties the Emperor and Empress of\nJapan will arrive at the American National\nRed Cross, 17th Street between D and E\nStreets. Their Majesties will be greeted\nby Dr. Frank Stanton, Chairman of the\nAmerican National Red Cross.\nDeparture from Blair House for Sightseeing\nof Washington, DC. Stops along the Sight-\nseeing Tour will be:\n1. Tidal Basin (Japanese Lantern)\nThe Honorable Walter E. Washington,\nMayor of the District of Columbia,\nwill present the Key to the City to\nthe Emperor.\n2. Lincoln Memorial\nBrief ceremony attended by Members of\nthe Japan American Society.\nAfternoon\nTheir Majesties the Emperor and Empress\nof Japan will have a private lunch.\n-3-\nPR#505\nFriday, October 3 (Continued)\nAfternoon\nTheir Majesties the Emperor and Empress of\nJapan will arrive at Mount Vernon for a\ntour. They will be greeted by Dr. Charles\nC. Wall, Resident Director.\nTheir Majesties the Emperor and Empress of\nJapan will give a reception at the Embassy\nof Japan, 2520 Massachusetts Avenue, Northwest.\nDress: Business suit.\n8:00 p.m.\nTheir Majesties the Emperor and Empress of\nJapan will give a dinner in honor of the\nPresident of the United States and Mrs.\nFord at the Smithsonian Castle, \"Commons\"\nroom.\nDress: White tie.\nSaturday, October 4\nMorning\nTheir Majesties the Emperor and Empress of\nJapan will depart from Andrews Air Force\nBase, Maryland, via USAF VC-9 Flight for\nOtis Air Force Base, Massachusetts.\nAfternoon\nThe Empress arrives Sandwich Glass\nMuseum and is greeted by Mr. W. Gordon\nSwan, President of Sandwich Historical\nSociety, and Miss Nancy Merrill,\nDirector-Curator. The Empress will\ntour the Museum.\nAfternoon\nThe Emperor arrives Woods Hole Oceanographic\nInstitution. He will be greeted by Dr. Paul\nM. Fye, President and Director of Woods Hole\nOceanographic Institution, and Dr. James D.\nEbert, President, Marine Biological Labora-\ntory, at the Redfield Building.\nThe Emperor departs Woods Hole Oceanographic\nInstitution for Marine Biological Laboratory\n(Lillie Building) where he will visit the\nLaboratory.\nThe Empress will visit Falmouth Artists'\nGuild, Inc. She will be greeted by\nMrs. Jane A'Lee Heyerdahl.\nDeparture from Otis Air Force Base for New\nYork City, LaGuardia Airport.\nPrivate evening.\nPR#505\n-4-\nSunday, October 5\nMorning\nTheir Majesties the Emperor and Empress of\nJapan will go on a Sightseeing Tour of New\nYork City and the Hudson River Valley.\nTheir Majesties the Emperor and Empress of\nJapan will arrive at the residence of the\nHonorable Nelson A. Rockefeller, Vice\nPresident of the United States, and Mrs.\nRockefeller, who will greet them and escort\nthem on a tour of Japanese House.\nMr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller will give\nan informal luncheon in honor of Their\nMajesties the Emperor and Empress of Japan\nat Fieldwood Farm.\nPrivate afternoon.\nTheir Majesties the Emperor and Empress of\nJapan will have an informal dinner at the\nresidence Consul General of Japan.\nMonday, October 6\nMorning\nTheir Majesties the Emperor and Empress of\nJapan will arrive at the United Nations\nwhere they will meet with the Secretary-\nGeneral and Mrs. Waldheim, and tour the\nUnited Nations Building.\nTheir Majesties the Emperor and Empress of\nJapan will tour the New York Botanical\nGardens, Bronx. They will be greeted by\nDr. and Mrs. Irwin and escorted by them\nfor the tour.\nAfternoon\nThe Honorable Abraham Beame, Mayor of the\nCity of New York, and Mrs. Beame will give\na luncheon in honor of Their Majesties the\nEmperor and Empress of Japan at Gracie\nMansion.\nTheir Majesties the Emperor and Empress of\nJapan will arrive at the Japan House for a\nvisit.\nTheir Majesties the Emperor and Empress of\nJapan will arrive at the Grand Ballroom of\nthe Waldorf Astoria Hotel where Represen-\ntatives of Japanese-American and Japanese\nin New York will give a reception in their\nhonor.\nPrivate evening.\n-5-\nPR#505\nTuesday, October 7\nMorning\nDeparture from John F. Kennedy International\nAirport for O'Hare International Airport,\nChicago.\nAfternoon\nThe Honorable Richard J. Daley, Mayor of\nthe City of Chicago, and Mrs. Daley will\ngive a luncheon in honor of Their Majesties\nthe Emperor and Empress of Japan at the\nConrad Hilton Hotel, Grand Ballroom.\nThe Emperor arrives at the Baltz Farm,\nJoliet, Illinois, where he will be greeted\nby the Honorable Daniel Walker, Governor\nof Illinois, Mr. and Mrs. Donald E. Baltz,\nMr. William Kuhfuss, President of American\nFarm Bureau, Mr. John White, Vice President\nof Illinois Agricultural Association and\nother officials. The Emperor will visit the\nfarms of Mr. Donald E. Baltz and Mr. John E.\nBaltz.\nAfternoon\nThe Empress will visit the Wyler\nChildren's Hospital, 950 E. 59th\nStreet. She will be greeted by Mr.\nGaylord Donnelly, Chairman of the\nBoard of Trustees, and Mr. John Wilson,\nActing President, University of Chicago.\nThe Empress will tour the Art Institute\nof Chicago. She will be greeted by Mr.\nLeigh Block, Chairman, Board of Trustees,\nand Mr. E.L. Chalmers, Jr., President.\nTheir Majesties the Emperor and Empress of\nJapan will arrive at the Parkside Room of\nthe Drake Hotel where the Representatives\nof Japanese-Americans and Japanese in Chicago\nwill give a reception in their honor.\nPrivate evening.\nWednesday, October 8\nMorning\nDeparture from O'Hare International Airport\nfor Los Angeles International Airport.\nTheir Majesties the Emperor and Empress of\nJapan will arrive at the Los Angeles Music\nCenter, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion and pro-\nceed to \"Founders\" where the Honorable\nThomas Bradley, Mayor of the City of Los\nAngeles, will present the Key to the City\nto the Emperor.\n-6-\nPR#505\nWednesday, October 8 (Continued)\nAfternoon\nThe Honorable Thomas Bradley, Mayor of the\nCity of Los Angeles, and Mrs. Bradley will\ngive a luncheon in honor of Their Majesties\nthe Emperor and Empress of Japan in the\nGrand Hall, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los\nAngeles Music Center.\nTheir Majesties the Emperor and Empress of\nJapan will tour Disneyland.\nTheir Majesties the Emperor and Empress of\nJapan will arrive at the Beverely Wilshire\nHotel where Representatives of Japanese-\nAmericans and Japanese in Los Angeles will\ngive a reception in their honor.\nPrivate evening.\nThursday, October 9\nMorning\nDeparture from Los Angeles. International\nAirport for San Diego Airport.\nTheir Majesties the Emperor and Empress of\nJapan will arrive at the San Diego National\nZoo for a tour of the Zoo. They will be\ngreeted by Mr. Charles L. Bieler, Director.\nAfternoon\nThe Emperor will arrive Scripps Institution\nfor a tour. He will be greeted by Dr. C.J.\nMurdinger, Deputy Director.\nDeparture from San Diego Airport for San\nFrancisco Airport.\nPrivate evening.\nFriday, October 10\nMorning\nTheir Majesties the Emperor and Empress of\nJapan will arrive at Strybing Arboretum,\nGolden Gate Park, where Representatives of\nJapanese-Americans and Japanese in San\nFrancisco will give a reception in their\nhonor.\nTheir Majesties the Emperor and Empress of\nJapan will stop at Kanrin Maru Monument en-\nroute to Vista Point of Golden Gate Bridge.\nArrival at Vista Point of Golden Gate Bridge.\nAfternoon\nThe Honorable Joseph L. Alioto, Mayor of the\nCity of San Francisco, and Mrs. Alioto will\ngive a luncheon in honor of Their Majesties\nthe Emperor and Empress of Japan at the St.\nFrancis Hotel, the Grand Ballroom.\nPR#505\n-7.-\nFriday, October 10 (Continued)\nAfternoon\nDeparture from San Francisco Airport for\nHonolulu International Airport.\nPrivate evening.\nSaturday, October 11\nMorning\nTheir Majesties the Emperor and Empress of\nJapan will arrive at Honolulu International\nCenter where the Citizens of Honolulu will\npresent a Welcoming Program.\nThe Honorable George R. Ariyoshi, Governor\nof the State of Hawaii, and Mrs. Ariyoshi\nwill give a luncheon in honor of Their\nMajesties the Emperor and Empress of Japan\nat their residence.\nAfternoon\nTheir Majesties the Emperor and Empress of\nJapan will tour the Bishop Museum. They\nwill be greeted by Dr. Roland W. Force,\nCurator, Mr. John D. Ebllinger, Senator\nRichard Lyman, Jr., Dr. Y. Baron Goto and\nDr. Yoshihiro Sinoto.\nTheir Majesties the Emperor and Empress of\nJapan will arrive at the residence of the\nConsul-General of Japan where Representatives\nof Japanese-Americans and Japanese of Hawaii\nwill give a reception in their honor.\nDeparture from Honolulu International Airport\nfor Kona Airport.\nPrivate evening.\nSunday, October 12\nPrivate day.\nMonday, October 13\nDeparture from Kona Airport for Honolulu\nInternational Airport.\nTheir Majesties the Emperor and Empress of\nJapan and their party will depart Honolulu\nInternational Airport for Tokyo aboard\nSpecial Imperial Flight.\n*\nGERALD R. FORD LIBRARY\nThe item described below has been transferred from this file to:\nr Audiovisual Unit\nBook Collection\nFord Museum in Grand Rapids\nItem: / 8\"x10\" color photo of East Room set up for\nState dinner for Emperor of Japanon 10/2/76\nWH photo A6725-10A\nThe item was transferred from: Weidenfeld Box 33\n10/2/75 Japm(1)\nInitials/Date let 3/86\nTHE EMPEROR OF JAPAN\nTHE EMPEROR OF JAPAN\nTHE EMPEROR OF JAPAN\nA Profile\nOn the Occasion of The Visit\nby The Emperor and Empress\nto the United States\nSeptember 30th to October 13th, 1975\nby Edwin O. Reischauer\na quiet stroll in the gardens of the Imperial Palace in Tokyo.\nFORD & LIBRARY GERALD\nFew events in the long history of international relations carry\nthe significance of the first visit to the United States of the Em-\nperor and Empress of Japan. Only once before has the reigning\nEmperor of Japan ventured forth from his beautiful island realm\nto travel abroad. On that occasion, his visit to a number of Euro-\npean countries resulted in an immediate strengthening of the\nbonds linking Japan and Europe. Thus, we may anticipate a simi-\nlar beneficial effect upon the already close relations of Japan\nand the United States.\nIt is with feelings of great honor and warm respect that the\nJapan Society welcomes the Emperor and Empress to the United\nStates. We have long awaited their visit, and we are confident\nthat the gracious dignity and personal warmth that their pres-\nence lends to this auspicious event will inaugurate a new era of\nfriendship and harmony between our two great nations.\nIn preparing this small booklet about the present Imperial\nfamily and the history of the Imperial dynasty, we are deeply\nindebted to Professor Edwin O. Reischauer, former United States\nAmbassador to Japan, for preparing the text, and to the Embassy\nof Japan for providing illustrative material.\nThe Japan Society\nNew York, 1975\nPublished by\nJAPAN SOCIETY, INC.\n333 East 47th Street\nNew York, N.Y. 10017\nTHE EMPEROR OF JAPAN\nby Edwin O. Reischauer\nIn this age of easy travel by jet, heads of state seem to whiz all over the globe.\nAmerican presidents make repeated visits abroad, and a veritable stream of for-\neign rulers and presidents flows through Washington. But the visit of the\nEmperor and Empress of Japan stands out as a significant first - the first official\nvisit to the United States of any Japanese Emperor in the long line of 124 rulers\nthat goes all the way back to shadowy prehistory. It parallels the visit last Novem-\nber of President Ford to Japan, making with it a pair of significant firsts in the\nrelations between the United States and Japan, two great nations with unusually\nclose and intimate contacts.\nIn a way it is surprising that this memorable first should be coming at this\nlate date. Visits have repeatedly been exchanged with virtually all of the other\nclose allies of the United States, with many countries of much smaller concern\nto the United States than Japan, and even with nations that have been more\nfrequently règarded as rivals or enemies than friends. It is odd that Japan\nshould have been missing from this list until now. The United States and\nJapan are close allies; they are two of the three largest economic units in the\nworld, with the world's greatest trans-oceanic trade between them; and they\nface the problems of the world together from the shared basis of a common\ndevotion to an open, free society and democratic institutions of government.\nNo foreign country is more important to Japan than is the United States. Japan\ndoes around a quarter of its foreign trade with us, shares a common defense\nthrough the Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security, and has far more cul-\ntural and intellectual contacts with America than with any other country. Con-\nversely, Japan may well prove to be the most important country in the world for\nthe United States. It is our second largest trading partner, following only Canada;\nin population, it is the largest of our close allies; and in economic terms, it is our\nSwans float on the calm surface of the Imperial Palace moat. In the background is the Nijubashi\nlargest intimate associate in facing the increasingly complex economic problems\n(Double Bridge) which leads to the main entrance to the Palace grounds.\nof the world. And yet, at the same time, Japan stands in a special position as our\nThe present Emperor at the age of\nfive. His dynasty is the oldest\nreigning family in the world, and\nhis reign of more than fifty years\nThe present Emperor is the first member of the Imperial line to travel abroad. In 1921, while\nis the longest in recorded Japanese\nstill Crown Prince, he paid an official visit to the heads of state of many European countries.\nhistory.\nHere he is shown with King George V of Great Britain.\nonly close partner with a totally different cultural background from our own - a\nAnother unique fact about the Emperor is that this is the fiftieth year he has\npoint that may be of growing significance in a world in which inter-racial and\nbeen on the throne - the longest reign in Japanese history, unless one goes back\ninter-cultural relations become ever more important.\nto the semi-mythological rulers of the third century and earlier times. The Em-\nIn a way, the lateness of these two visits is a sign, not of disinterest or distance\nperor was born in 1901, and in 1921, after his return from Europe, he became\nbetween Japan and the United States, but rather of the closeness as well as the\nPrince Regent, or acting monarch, for his ailing father, Emperor Taisho. In late\ndelicacy of the relationship. The American military occupation of Japan follow-\nDecember 1926 he succeeded his father on the throne, and the remaining week\ning World War Il ended only in 1952, less than a quarter-century ago. It left\nof that year became the first year of his reign, known as the first year of the\nAmerica looming very large in Japanese eyes and Japanese-American relations\nShowa year period. The year 1975 is the 50th year of Showa, a name meaning\nenmeshed in domestic Japanese political dispute. When in 1960 President Eisen-\n\"Enlightened Peace.\"\nhower planned a trip to Japan, the proposed visit became entangled in political\nThe Emperor's name is Hirohito, which is what he signs on official documents,\ncontroversy there and had to be cancelled. The tragic assassination of President\nas he also did on a photographic portrait of him which I treasure in my home.\nKennedy intervened before he could make the visit to Japan which he had firmly\nBut no one in Japan refers to the Emperor as Hirohito. Instead people use such\nin mind. As the years went on with presidential visits to countries all over the\nterms as \"His Majesty\" or \"the Present Emperor.\" Curiously, the Imperial family\nworld but not to Japan, some people came to the conclusion that the Japanese\nis the only family in all Japan which lacks a family name. Probably it was already\nsuffered a permanent \"presidential allergy.\" But last November President Ford\nso well established as the ruling family at the time that the Japanese first began\nfinally did go to Japan for what was to prove a gloriously successful visit. The\nto take family names, roughly a millennium and a half ago, that no family name\nweather was superb, the Japanese people as well as the government welcomed\nseemed necessary.\nhim wholeheartedly, and his straightforward candor and obvious good will made\nMythology places the beginning of the Imperial line in 660 B.C., when a de-\na most favorable impression on them. This happy occasion together with the\nscendant of the supreme Sun Goddess is said to have become the first Japanese\npresent visit of the Emperor and Empress show that Japanese-American relations,\nEmperor. More sober history traces the line clearly back to the early sixth cen-\nwhich have all along been extensive and vitally important to both sides, have\ntury A.D. and perhaps somewhat earlier. Even this reduced heritage makes it\nnow become relaxed as well, in a way that they were not in the earlier postwar\nincomparably the oldest reigning family in the world, and the genealogy is pre-\nperiod. Thus, these two visits symbolize a new and happier stage in Japanese-\ncise, detailed, and indisputable the whole way back.\nAmerican relations.\nThe early Japanese Emperors were semi-religious figures, being in a sense the\nThe Emperor is the first member of the Japanese Imperial line ever to have\nhigh priests of the cults of the Shinto religion. The symbols of their authority\ngone abroad. As a young man in 1921, he spent seven months of travel in Europe.\nwere the Three Imperial Regalia - a bronze mirror representing the Imperial\nHe and the Empress also visited six European countries in the autumn of 1971\nancestress, the Sun Goddess; a sword; and a curved, comma-shaped jewel of\nand touched down briefly on the way there at Anchorage, Alaska, where they\nuncertain significance. The shrine to the Sun Goddess at Ise has always been a\nwere greeted by President and Mrs. Nixon.\nparticularly holy place in Japan. The feminine character of the mythological\nIn the first state visit by an American President, Gerald Ford traveled to Japan in November 1974.\nHis meetings with the Emperor and with officials of the Japanese government served to underline\nand strengthen the friendly relations between Japan and the United States.\nOfficial portrait of the Emperor in\nOfficial portrait of Empress Nagako\nhis coronation robes in 1928. He\nat her coronation. She is two years\nbecame Prince Regent in 1921, and\nyounger than the Emperor and is a\nsucceeded his father, Emperor\ndescendant of a collateral branch\nTaisho, to the throne in 1926.\nof the Imperial family.\nprogenitress of the Imperial line as well as the existence of several ruling Em-\nas the theoretical source of all authority but was increasingly removed from the\npresses in early years suggest an original matriarchal social organization in\nlevers of power, which fell into the hands of military men in the provinces. The\nJapan.\nlast Japanese Emperor who actually attempted to rule was Go-Daigo (or Daigo II)\nIn the course of the seventh and eighth centuries, the Japanese reorganized\nin the fourteenth century, and his efforts resulted in a dangerous split of the Im-\ntheir governmental institutions on the model of the contemporary Chinese em-\nperial line into the Northern and Southern Courts between the years 1336 and\npire, where the Emperor was an all-powerful secular monarch ruling through\n1392.\nan elaborate bureaucracy. Ever since, the Japanese Emperors have had a sort\nThe tradition that the Japanese Emperors did not rule but reigned as the sym-\nof dual character as both secular rulers of the Chinese type, at least in theory,\nbol of national unity and the theoretical source of legitimate authority is prob-\nand also semi-religious cult leaders derived from Japan's own early history. Even\nably the chief reason why the Japanese Imperial line has survived through all\ntoday, the Emperor performs a number of annual ceremonies, such as the sym-\nhistory and still performs its symbolic role today as it did in antiquity. Actual\nbolic first planting of the rice each spring, which faithfully reflect ancient rituals,\npower might change hands, as it did a number of times in Japanese history, but\nthough they are no longer considered to have religious significance.\nthe symbolic source of legitimacy continued unaffected.\nEven in early times the authority of the Japanese Emperor was perhaps more\nOne such change of power occurred in the middle of the nineteenth century.\nsymbolic than actual. Throughout Japanese history the Imperial line has always\nJapan had managed to isolate itself from the rest of the world for two centuries,\nbeen recognized as the undisputed source of all legitimate authority, but individ-\nbut finally in 1854 an American naval expedition under Commodore Matthew\nual Emperors have usually reigned rather than ruled, somewhat in the manner of\nC. Perry forced it to open its doors. Japan's pre-industrial economy and its feudal\nthe modern crowned heads of northern Europe. Already in the sixth century,\nstructure of government, under the Tokugawa shoguns, or military dictators,\nwhen Japan first emerged into the light of history, Emperors, rather than domi-\nand some 265 semi-autonomous feudal lords, clearly could not meet the chal-\nnating their courts, were more commonly manipulated by the great families that\nlenge of the industrial production and the more modernized military power of\nsurrounded them. By the early eighth century, it had become almost the rule\nthe countries of the West. Japan needed a more centralized as well as modern-\nfor Emperors to abdicate as soon as they had an heir old enough to perform the\nized form of government.\nonerous ceremonial duties of the position. Occasional strong men on the throne\nA group of revolutionaries managed to seize power in 1868, justifying their\ndid exercise some power, and for a while in the eleventh and twelfth centuries\noverthrow of the Tokugawa feudal system as a return to direct Imperial rule,\nretired Emperors were the chief political force at the capital, but otherwise lead-\nbased in part on the memories of a more central Imperial role in ancient times\nership at the Imperial court was in the hands of the Fujiwara family and its vari-\nbut also on the model of nineteenth century European monarchies, such as Ger-\nous offshoots from the ninth century until the nineteenth.\nmany, Austria, and Britain. Because the concept of direct Imperial rule was both\nThe spread of feudalism over Japan from the twelfth century onward pushed\nan inspiration and rationale for the whole great change that swept Japan after\nthe Imperial family even further away from actual political power. It remained\n1868, this change has usually been called the Meiji Restoration. The name Meiji\nHer Majesty the Empress of Japan\n<<04\nDE IN\nHis Majesty the Emperor of Japan\nThe Emperor Meiji, grandfather of\nthe present Emperor, pictured\nshortly after his coronation in 1868.\nComing to the throne when the\nRestoration overthrew the Tokugawa\nfeudal system and returned direct\nrule to the Imperial family, Meiji's\nlong reign fostered the modern-\nThe Shishinden or Ceremonial Hall of the Old Imperial Palace in Kyoto. For nearly eleven\nization of Japanese society and\ncenturies prior to the Meiji Restoration in 1868, Kyoto served as the seat of the Imperial Court\ngovernment.\nand also as the cultural and intellectual capital of Japan.\nwas that of the year period, given in 1868 to the reign of the new boy Emperor,\nFollowing the war, Japan adopted a new Constitution in 1947, and in this doc-\nwho, 45 years later after his death in 1912, came to be known as Emperor Meiji.\nument theory and practice were perfectly unified for the first time. This docu-\nThe Meiji Restoration seemed to bring the Emperor back as the actual ruler of\nment clearly states that \"the Emperor shall be the symbol of the state and of the\nJapan, but this was more theory than actual practice. Everything was done in his\nunity of the people, deriving his position from the will of the people with whom\nname, and the Japanese leaders, even when they differed with one another, all\nresides sovereign power.\" The Emperor's duties are then described to be simply\nclaimed to be carrying out the \"Imperial will.\" The Constitution adopted in\nsymbolic in character. Since the mythology regarding the divinity of the Imperial\n1889 as the final embodiment of the new system declared the Emperor to be\nline had been used in pre-war days to build up the mystique of the \"Imperial\n\"sacred and inviolable,\" assigned to him the \"rights of sovereignty,\" and at least\nwill,\" the Emperor also issued on January 1, 1946, a statement denying his own\non the surface seemed to give him all powers of government, including \"the\nsupposed divinity. Again it is not really appropriate to speculate on the Emperor's\nsupreme command of the Army and Navy.\" But a closer reading of the docu-\nown personal views regarding these postwar changes, because he is specifically\nment shows that the Emperor was expected to take no action except on the ad-\ndenied a right to have or at least to express political opinions, but everything\nvice of his ministers and on the basis of the acts of the Japanese parliament,\nabout his demeanor since the war gives the impression that he is thoroughly and\ncalled the Diet. And this is the way the system actually operated. Emperor Meiji\nhappily in accord with the newly defined functions of the throne.\nmay have exercised some influence on government decisions, but his son, Em-\nWhile the Emperor's duties are purely symbolic, they are nonetheless arduous,\nperor Taisho, obviously did not, and by the time the present Emperor came to\nand he performs them with great conscientiousness and with noteworthy good\nthe throne he was clearly expected to validate the decisions of his government\nwill. He promulgates laws, convokes the Diet, proclaims general elections, at-\nbut not actually to participate in making them.\ntests the appointment or dismissal of officials, awards honors, receives foreign\nSince the present Emperor has always been a conscientious Constitutional\nambassadors, and performs a number of other formal duties, all with the advice\nmonarch, it really is not proper to inquire what his own particular views may\nand approval of the Cabinet. In addition, he and the members of his family are\nhave been, even under the old system. But the few hints one can get about his\ntireless in their attendance at events of national significance-reading greetings\nattitudes at the time suggest a consistent opposition to the trends that were lead-\nat opening sessions of great conferences, attending dedication ceremonies and\ning Japan into war abroad and toward military supremacy at home. The only\nsports festivals, and inspecting exhibits.\npolitical decision the Emperor is known to have made was at the time of the\nIn the years immediately after the end of World War II, the Emperor was\nsurrender at the end of World War II. The high command for the first time in\nparticularly energetic in seeking to change the popular concept of the throne\nhistory presented him with an evenly split vote on surrender and asked him to\nand the people's relationship to it. Before the war the militarized leadership had\ndecide. This he did at once in favor of surrender, and he obtained the acqui-\nhad him appear in public in military uniform astride a white charger-a remote,\nescence of the Japanese people for this course by the unprecedented gesture of\nforbidding, and \"sacred and inviolable\" figure. The common people were not\nhimself broadcasting the announcement of surrender to the whole Japanese\neven supposed to look at him directly. Now in mufti and a fedora hat he met\nnation.\nhis fellow Japanese face to face in the streets, in factories, and in coal mines.\nAmong the Emperor's formal duties, one of the most important is his annual address to the\nopening session of the national Diet or parliament.\nNot a facile conversationalist because in his austere upbringing he had never\nhad the chance for verbal give and take, he usually fell back on \"Ah! Is that so,\"\nin rejoinder to the replies to his inquiries. It was a limited sort of conversation,\nbut for the first time it gave a sense of common human feeling between the\nJapanese people and their Emperor.\nThe Emperor has a private life aside from his public one. He and the Empress\nreside in the spacious Imperial Palace grounds in the heart of Tokyo. These\nThe Emperor is a quiet, scholarly\ngrounds were the central core of what was once the great fortress headquarters\nperson who leads a very private\nlife when he is not performing his\nof the Tokugawa shoguns, originally built by Dokan Ota in 1457 and restored by\nformal duties.\nthe Tokugawa shoguns after they moved there in 1590 and during the early years\nof their rule, which started officially in 1603. The broad moats and high embank-\nments and walls of that early period are still impressive and beautiful sights, in\nno way dwarfed by the modern city.\nThe main buildings of the prewar palace were destroyed by wartime bombing,\nbut a small and very private new residence for the Imperial couple was com-\npleted in 1961 and an impressive new Palace for public occasions in 1969. The\nlatter was under construction for five years, an indication both of the care with\nwhich it was built and the modesty of the funds the Japanese government now\nassigns to the support of the Imperial family. The upkeep of the extensive Im-\nperial Palace grounds is maintained largely by volunteer work by groups from\nall over Japan-a sign of the popular respect and affection in which the Imperial\ncouple are held.\nTraditionally, the Emperor of Japan,\nThe Emperor's private life is a very private one indeed. There is none of the\nas guardian of the nation's well-\ninformal social mixing with others, practiced by some of the royal families of\nbeing, encourages agriculture. Each\nEurope. Traditional Japanese feelings about the uniqueness of the Imperial fam-\nspring, in a special ritual held on\nthe Palace grounds, he plants rice\nily preclude such easy sociability. The Emperor and Empress are surrounded by\nseedlings. In autumn, the rice is\nchamberlains and ladies-in-waiting, with whom their contacts remain rather\nharvested by the Emperor himself.\nformal by American standards. Beyond these court circles, their contacts are\nThe new buildings of the Imperial Palace in Tokyo were completed in 1969. Here the South\nGarden is viewed from the Chidori-no-ma (Hall of Birds). The buildings and gardens of the Palace\ngrounds are maintained largely by volunteer groups from all over Japan.\nThe Emperor's chief personal\ninterest is marine biology, and\nhis published research in this field\nhas been well received in academic\nThe Emperor enjoys a particularly close family life. Here, in a 1939 photograph, he and the Empress\ncircles. Much of his free time is\nare pictured with all their children. From left to right are Princess Kazuko, the Empress holding\nspent in a well-equipped laboratory\nPrincess Takako, the Emperor, Princess Shigeko, Crown Prince Akihito, Princess Atsuko, and\nwithin the Palace.\nPrince Hitachi.\nalmost entirely formal. It is in a sense a rather isolated life. But it is much less\nbut his qualities of personal warmth and concern nonetheless shine through\nisolated than it was before the war. Television in particular has made a great\neven the court formalities that surround him and the necessities for translation\ndifference. Through it the Imperial couple has found a very enjoyable window\nin almost all of his contacts with foreigners. I have reason to believe that the\non the life of their people and even a sense of participation in it.\nEmperor does understand quite a bit of English, but for the sake of protocol\nThe Emperor's chief personal interest has always been marine biology, and\nall dealings with foreigners on formal occasions are carefully translated both\neach Monday and Thursday afternoon, if he is not officially engaged, and every\nways. I remember that at my first meeting with him, which was for the formal\nSaturday, he spends at his laboratory in another part of the palace grounds. He\npresentation of my ambassadorial credentials, I replied directly to one of his\nhas written and published four books on his specialty, which happens to be\ncomments but then had to wait while the interpreter formally translated his\nhydrozoans, and these have been well received in academic circles. In addition,\nremark to which I had already replied, before being allowed to continue with\neleven other publications have centered around his studies. These have been\nthe conversation.\ndirected particularly toward the marine life and the flora in the neighborhood\nThe normal format for an audience with the Emperor was for me to introduce\nof his two Imperial summer homes, one on the seashore south of Tokyo at\neach American in turn and for the Emperor then to engage each person individ-\nHayama on Sagami Bay, the other in the volcanic area of Nasu north of Tokyo.\nually in conversation, asking him a series of questions about his activities. The\nThese eleven publications include works on the opisthobranchia, ascidians,\nformality of the procedure is a bit inhibiting to easy personal contact, and it is\ncrabs, corals, sea shells, and sea stars of Sagami Bay and the myxomycetes and\nmade all the more formidable by the need for translation both ways. But I never\nflora of Nasu.\ntook a fellow American to an Imperial audience without my countryman emerg-\nThe Emperor, as one would guess, is a quiet, scholarly person, but at the same\ning from it impressed by the warmth, friendliness, and wide knowledge of\ntime he is a man of great personal warmth and extraordinarily wide interests.\nthe Emperor.\nAs the American Ambassador to Japan between 1961 and 1966, I had the oppor-\nThe Emperor is known to have a particularly close family life. When the first\ntunity to take many high government officials and other dignitaries from the\nfour children the Empress bore him were girls, some persons at the court advo-\nUnited States for audiences with the Emperor, and I also met him on various\ncated that the Emperor take a secondary consort to insure a male heir, as his\nstate occasions each year. As the only foreign ambassador at that time who\ngrandfather had done, but it is understood that he steadfastly refused. The\ncould converse with him in Japanese, I also had the chance for many personal\nImperial couple and their seven children have always been a veritable model\nconversations. I may in fact have had more opportunities to meet and talk with\nof conjugal affection and warm family bonds.\nthe Emperor than any other foreigner of any nationality.\nThe Empress almost always accompanies the Emperor on all occasions, except\nThroughout my contact with the Emperor I have always been struck by his\nfor certain Constitutional duties such as convoking the Diet. Two years his\nvery genuine friendliness, sincerity, directness, and broad and informed inter-\njunior, she is the descendant of a collateral branch of the Imperial family and\nests. As mentioned before, he cannot be regarded as an easy conversationalist,\nattended what in her youth was the exclusive Peers' School for Girls. She is fond\nThe Empress almost always accom-\npanies the Emperor on official\nIn a traditional Palace event, dating\nfunctions as well as private oc-\nback more than one thousand\ncasions. The Imperial couple made\nyears, the Emperor and Empress\na state visit to the capitals of\npreside each January over the New\nEurope in 1971 and are pictured\nYear Poetry Party, held in the\nhere with the \"Little Mermaid\"\nMatsu-no-ma (Hall of Pines) of\nin Copenhagen.\nthe Seiden (State Hall).\nThe Emperor and Empress re-\nceive their guests at the annual\nImperial Garden Party.\nVisiting London in October 1971, the Emperor and Empress were guests of honor at a state banquet\nThe Empress particularly enjoys painting in traditional\nat Buckingham Palace. They are being greeted here by His Royal Highness, the Prince Philip\nJapanese style, and a number of her works have been collected\nDuke of Edinburgh, and Their Majesties Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother and Queen\nand published in two volumes under her art name Toen.\nElizabeth II.\nCrown Prince Akihito\nshares the Emperor's\ninterest in marine biology.\nFather and son are\nshown here aboard the\nThe present Emperor and\nvessel Hayama-maru\nEmpress, then Crown\nconducting biological\nPrince and Princess,\nresearch in Sagami Bay\nshortly after their wedding\nin 1952.\nin 1924.\nof poetry and music, and some of her Japanese-style paintings have been col-\nfamily atmosphere. This is a significant innovation, for heirs to the throne were\nlected and published in two volumes. Like her husband, she plays a symbolic\ntraditionally separated from their parents at an early age and raised by court\nrole conscientiously and with good will, serving for example as the Honorary\nofficials. The Crown Prince and Princess share the heavy burdens of ceremonial\nPresident of the Japanese Red Cross Society. She is a person of unusual charm.\nand public relations duties with the Emperor and Empress. They have already\nWhile I was the American Ambassador, my wife and I had the opportunity to\ngone abroad on state visits twelve different times, visiting the United States in\nmeet her on frequent occasions and found her to be one of the most genuinely\n1960.\nwarm, friendly, and gracious persons we had even known.\nThe Emperor's younger son is Prince Hitachi, who like his brother shares their\nOne of the daughters of the Emperor and Empress died before her first birth-\nfather's interest in biology. He graduated from Gakushuin University, and in\nday, but the other four grew up and married, thereby becoming commoners,\n1964 married Miss Hanako Tsugaru, the descendant of a line of feudal lords\nas are all former nobles and collateral Imperial lines since the war, except for\nPrince and Princess Hitachi as well as the brother and sisters-in-law of the\nthe brothers of the Emperor. The eldest daughter, now deceased, was married\nEmperor also carry some of the public relations duties that surround the throne.\nto a member of a collateral Imperial line, the second to a scion of one of the\nThe Emperor's second brother died not long after the war, but his extremely\nbranches of the Fujiwara family that so long dominated the Imperial court, and\ncharming widow, Princess Chichibu, survives and is remembered in Washington\nthe two younger ones to descendants of feudal lords. The youngest, the former\nfrom the time when in the 1920s she was the school-girl daughter of Tsuneo\nPrincess Suga, is remembered around Washington as the extremely attractive\nMatsudaira, the Japanese Ambassador. The third brother and his wife are Prince\nand vivacious wife of Mr. Hisanaga Shimazu, who was stationed there for two\nand Princess Takamatsu, and the fourth brother and his wife, Prince and Princess\nyears as a young official of a Japanese banking company.\nMikasa. Only the latter have children, and Prince Mikasa is also noteworthy for\nThe Imperial couple's fifth child is Akihito, the Crown Prince, now 42 years\nhis part-time position as a professor at several universities and for being a special-\nold. During the early postwar years, Mrs. Elizabeth Gray Vining of Philadelphia\nist in the history of the ancient Middle East, particularly that of the early Hebrews.\nwas one of his personal tutors. In 1959 he electrified the nation by choosing for\nAlthough all the members of the Imperial family help the Imperial couple with\nhis consort Miss Michiko Shoda, the daughter of a businessman who was a com-\nthe various ceremonial tasks and with other matters of public relations, the main\nmoner even by prewar standards. The Crown Princess is a very talented and\nburden still falls on the Emperor and Empress. But of all their many activities,\nattractive graduate of Sacred Heart Women's University, and the couple met and\ntheir present visit to the United States is one of the most significant, demon-\nfell in love through their common interest in tennis. The Crown Prince also\nstrating as it does the relaxed warmth of relations between two great nations\nshares his father's interest in marine biology and devotes much of his free time\nwhich are of such vital importance to each other.\nto the study of ichthyology. The Crown Prince and Princess have three children,\nThere is reason to believe that the Emperor has for a long time wished to visit\nPrince Hiro (born in 1960), Prince Aya, and Princess Nori. All three are being\nthe United States, and so this occasion means the achievement for him of a long\nbrought up by the Crown Prince and Princess themselves in an ordinary modern\ncherished hope. The American people for their part will recognize and admire\nThe Emperor and Empress, pictured\nhere in front of one of the new\nbuildings of the Imperial Palace.\nThe Imperial couple frequently enjoys the companionship of their children on informal visits to\nThe entire Imperial family often gathers informally at the Palace. Pictured here in the garden are\ntheir mountain villa at Nasu, north of Tokyo. Here they are joined by Crown Prince Akihito and\nthe Empress, Crown Prince Akihito, the Emperor, Princess Nori, Prince Aya, Crown Princess\nCrown Princess Michiko.\nMichiko, Prince Hitachi, Prince Hiro, and Princess Hitachi.\nThe Emperor received his early education at the Gakushuin (Peers' School). Here, he and the\nEmpress enjoy an informal moment at a meeting of Gakushuin alumni.\nin the Emperor and Empress the epitome of personal friendliness, family virtues,\ncultural interests, and scientific devotion. Beyond these personal aspects of the\nvisit, however, the presence in the United States of the Emperor and Empress\naffords the American people and government an opportunity to reciprocate to\nthe Japanese people the warmth of their welcome to our President in the\nautumn of 1974 and to show them the strength and sincerity of our wishes to\ncontinue the friendly and mutually beneficial relations between our two coun-\ntries, which lie at the root of our mutual hopes for world peace.\nTheir Majesties derive much pleasure from looking through their family photograph albums.\nEDWIN O. REISCHAUER\nThe long career of Edwin O. Reischauer has embraced nearly all\nareas of Japanese-American relations. His personal involvement with\nJapan is perhaps deeper and more intimate than that of any other\nAmerican, and professionally he has distinguished himself as a\nscholar, teacher, writer, and diplomat.\nBorn in Japan in 1910, he received his education at the American\nSchool in Japan, Oberlin College, and Harvard University. As a,\nhistorian, Professor Reischauer pursued his study of Japan at the\nHarvard-Yenching Institute and the Universities of Paris, Tokyo, and\nKyoto. After wartime service in the War Department and the State\nDepartment, he returned to Japan in 1948-49 as a member of the\nCultural and Social Science Mission of the Department of the Army.\nSince 1946, he has been on the faculty of Harvard University, teach-\ning Japanese language, history, and government. In 1966, he was\nappointed a University Professor at Harvard and in 1973 was named\nChairman of the Committee for the Japan Institute.\nProfessor Reischauer's academic activities were interrupted from\n1961 to 1966, when he served the administrations of President\nKennedy and President Johnson as United States Ambassador to\nJapan.\nAmong his numerous publications in the field of Asian history\nand foreign policy, perhaps the best known are Japan, Past and\nPresent, The United States and Japan, and the great two-volume\ntext-book, East Asia: The Great Tradition and East Asia: The Modern\nTransformation.\nProfessor Reischauer is an honorary director of the Japan Society\nand president of the board of trustees of the Harvard-Yenching\nInstitute.\nJAPAN SOCIETY\nThe Japan Society, founded in 1907, is an association of individuals\nand corporations actively engaged in bringing the peoples of Japan\nand the United States closer together in understanding, appreciation\nand cooperation. It is a private, nonprofit, nonpolitical organization,\ndevoted to cultural, educational and public affairs, and to discus-\nsions, exchanges and studies in areas of vital interest to both\npeoples. Its aim is to provide a medium through which each nation\nmay learn from the experiences and accomplishments of the other\nPhotographs through the courtesy of\nEmbassy of Japan, Washington, D.C.\nWhite House, Washington, D.C.\nCalligraphy by Nankoku Hidai\nPrinted by Georgian Lithographers, Inc.\n5\n............ *************\nIn honor of\nTheir Majesties\nThe Emperor and Empress of Japan\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\nThursday, October 2, 1975\nVAN CLIBURN, America's most popular classical pianist,\nwas born in Shreveport, Louisiana. His mother, a talented\npianist, taught him music and remained his only instructor\nuntil he began studies at Juilliard, from which he graduated\nwith highest honors.\nPROGRAM\nMr. Cliburn first played in public at the age of four; at\ntwelve, he made his orchestral debut. The following year, he\nScherzo in C-sharp minor, Opus 39\nFrederic Chopin\nplayed at Carnegie Hall. Over the next several years, he won\na number of prestigious awards, including two scholarships\n\"Reflets dans l'eau\" (Images, 1st series)\nClaude Debussy\nfor graduate study and the Edgar M. Leventritt Foundation\nAward which gave him the privilege of playing with the\n\"L'Ile joyeuse\"\nClaude Debussy\nNew York Philharmonic and four other major American\norchestras.\n\"Widmung\"\nRobert Schumann\nIn Moscow, Mr. Cliburn won the hearts of the Russian\nPolonaise in A-flat Major, Opus 53\nFrederic Chopin\npeople, the acclaim of critics, and worldwide attention with\nhis stunning victory at the 1958 Tchaikovsky Competition.\nOvernight offers poured in and his American concert sched-\nule was filled even before he returned home to New York\nCity's first ticker-tape parade for a classical musician.\nAfter his Moscow triumph, his first recording, Tchaikovsky's\nFirst Piano Concerto, became a best seller-the first classical\nalbum to sell over a million copies. His many subsequent\nrecordings have also been highly successful.\nMr. Cliburn returned to the Soviet Union in 1960 as part of\nthe Cultural Exchange Program. Enormous crowds gathered\nto hear him, and his final appearance in Moscow's Sports\nPalace attracted more than 20,000 people. He also toured\nthe USSR in 1962, 1965, and 1972. His musical genius,\npersonal warmth and enthusiasm have made Mr. Cliburn a\ngoodwill ambassador whenever he has toured overseas.\nSEPAL FORD"
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