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The original documents are located in Box 32, folder "State Dinners - 10/2/75 - Japan (4)" of the Sheila Weidenfeld Files at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library. Copyright Notice The copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) governs the making of photocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted material. Gerald Ford donated to the United States of America his copyrights in all of his unpublished writings in National Archives collections. Works prepared by U.S. Government employees as part of their official duties are in the public domain. The copyrights to materials written by other individuals or organizations are presumed to remain with them. If you think any of the information displayed in the PDF is subject to a valid copyright claim, please contact the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library. Some items in this folder were not digitized because it contains copyrighted materials. Please contact the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library for access to these materials. Digitized from Box 32 of the Sheila Weidenfeld Files at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library PHOTO REPORT HIROHITO FOLLOWS A WELL-WORN PATH TO THE BLAIR HOUSE USN&WR After White House visit, on to Blair House. T HERE is one historic house on the royal party, whether or not the Emper- The house and its contents were sold busiest avenue in Washington which or would like to entertain, who should in 1942 to the U.S. Government for is a treasure trove owned by the U.S. conduct the ritualized "tea ceremony" about $150,000. Since then, it has been is never visited by beloved by the Lananese host to hundreds of state visitors from Hirohito Takes a Bow T he autumn air was crisp as Emperor ed States Marine bugler played taps. Aaron, to thank the American people for Hirohito labored up the long mar- It was a perfectly standard ceremony their help in rebuilding Japan after the ble staircase that leads to the Tomb of the for a visiting Head of State, but the war. It was, he said, a "most unfortunate Unknown Soldier in Arlington National moment had a special poignancy. The war, which I deeply deplore." Some Cemetery. Carefully taking one step at a Emperor, the onetime god-king in whose bilingual listeners felt that the statement time the frail 74-vear-old Emperor an- name Iapan launched a bloodv. war of regret was stronger in the English Dirck Halstead Frank J. Davis Wally McNamee-N HISTORY COME FULL CIRCLE Hirohito Visit a Symbolic Bow to U.S. BY SAM JAMESON during and before it as well, he has That Hirohito, 74, and Nagako, 72, Times Staff Writer always been a symbol. would make such a trip at their ad- KYO-To Japan, a nation His trip to the United States, the vanced ages makes the symbolic ges- e form often assumes more im- first ever by an emperor of Japan ex- ture all the more meaningful. Com- ince than content, the 15 day vi- cept for Hirohito's 90-minute stopov- bined with the danger that some act er in Anchorage en route to Europe of terrorism may be committed dur- ) the United States by Emperor in 1971, will symbolize to Japan that ing the trip by Japanese radicals, it hito and Empress Nagako begin- history is coming full cycle, even also makes the gesture a big gamble today holds special symbolic sig- without a word being spoken about it. for Japan. ince. To the Japanese, the man in whose Although young people in Japan fore World War II, Japan's con- name war was declared on the Unit- know more about American rock ion gave Hirohito the fiction of ed States in 1941 is now, by his trip groups than they know about the Im- absolute power and declared his to the United States, about to declare perial couple, the older generation n to be "invoilable and sacred." in symbolic form the importance and which runs Japan still holds the em- the war, the new, American-in- the high esteem with which Japan peror in awe and reverence. A flicker di constitution stripped him of regards America. of the heart no less than a bullet iction of power and declared him fired during the trip would bring 3 "a symbol of the unity of the down the government of Prime Min- nese people." THE WEATHER ister Takeo Miki immediately and rohito himself said four years create a memory that would haunt that he had always considered National Weather Service forecast: U.S.-Japanese relations at least as elf to be nothing more than a Morning low clouds with hazy after- long as the memories of Pearl Harbor erless "constitutional monarch" noon sunshine today and Tuesday. and Hiroshima. the same sort of influence his Highs today in the mid 70s and war- It is a gamble in which the United oredecessors held stretching back mer Tuesday with highs in the upper States, too, has become fully in- igh history and mythology to 70s. High Sunday, 77; low, 60. volved. For four years the American ear 660 B.C. Complete weather information and government has been pressing for us not only after the war but smog report in Part 2, Page 4. Please Turn to Page 5, Col. 3 52/63/6- ,nom Juni NUMI Interviewing Hirohito ©YKO-Emperor Hirohito's long- awatted audience last Monday with American and foreign newsmen wound The News Business up as a peculiar and discordant affair. What the Emperor thought of it is un- known but the press, it's fair to say, like God asking Moses to wait for a was not amused. The interview was transcript before carrying off the Ten hedged with restrictions, the Emperor's Commandents, responses were brief and often non- Abruptly the voice of New York WARM RECEPTION-President Ford welco shoto los Angel Ford Welcomes Hirohito With Full Military Honors President Cites Long Ties Between U.S. and Japan; LARGEST CIRCULATION IN THE WEST, Emperor Speaks of 'Challenges of Tragic Interlude' T ONE 120 PAGES FRIDAY MORNING, BY MARLENE CIMONS Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON-An American the White House grounds. They ha president welcomed a Japanese em- traveled by car from Williamsburg peror to the White House Thursday Va., where they had spent two days. for the first time in history. Mr. Ford. wearing a dark blue pin For the Emperor of Japan, Whale of a Reception BY ERNEST B. FURGURSON TO is NANTUCKET, Mass.-If Emperor Hirohito international bodies to impose a moratorium were visiting this cutesy old home of the on whaling, to impose quotas on the catch- American whaling industry, he might get a any means to try to save the whales from ex- more sympathetic greeting than the one wait- tinction. Three times, the United Nations has ing for him at Woods Hole, just over the hori- called for a 10-year halt by the industry. The zon to the northwest. International Whaling Commission set strict A GIRL'S SECOND - BEST FRIEND Washington Stan 16/90/75 haired older gentleman gestured to an Did Betty Ford drip diamonds more than usual during the recent Imperial The empty chair beside him. The ebullient jewels were Madame Wellington's coun- Ear Ford bounced into it. As Ear hears it, visit? Fear not, Earwigs. Things aren't young Ford regaled his new-found friend getting decadent. Ear hears that the with tales of the triumphant coup. What couldn't be accomplished now, with the terfeits. stuffy old so-and-so dumped? His com- panion nodded sagely. A pleasant lunch- EVERYBODY MAKES MISTAKES BUTZ NAILED Ear hears that FORD PALED Democratic Rep. eon over, the older man rose, shook Ford's hand and introduced himself. You This week's issue of Newsweek certain 'Skins went sloshing last week at Harold E. Ford, a black Young Turk matter-of-factly reveals that Marvin a Fairfax Holiday Inn. Dave Butz and Bill from Tennessee and a former undertak- guessed it, Earwigs. Himself. And he Mandel, facing investigation on bartered Brundige locked elbows in a Rusty Nail er, was in high spirits the other day, Ear hadn't spilled one bean. favors, has hired Edward Bennett Wil- drinking contest, causing Butz to doze off hears. bhe'd just been sworn in on the liams to defend him. "It's off the wall" right there in the Fox and Hounds Room, House Banking and Currency Committee GROUND BEEF TRAILED The said Marvin's press sec, Frank De Filip- whereupon Brundige had to tackle him - part of a clean-sweep uprising that big joke going around the new FBI build po, flying off the handle. "It shocked and cart him upstairs. Ear thinks this is had ousted the powerful committee ing is that one can now buy a Hearst- me," said Arnold M. Wiener, who is Mar- all good fun, but won't say which Redskin chairman of four decades, Rep. Wright burger in the cafeteria. Open it up and vin's real lawyer. Anyway, 'tain't true. wished loudly that George Allen would Patman, Tex. As he bounded into the there's a Patty inside. Ear has no com- Ed and Marv are just good friends. drop dead. House dining room, a. courteous white- ment. h had been laid a microscope ir II research labora Hydroids, which of sea nettles, are I biologist's own s y. He had asked 10 particular spe from the Smith $ vast collection a wards he comp ed the museum lists on the quality -Washington Star Photographer Ray Lustig specimens, addi visit to the Smiths ad long been one White House Party eams. The Emper old Dr. Porter Kie or of the museur he had been sag I by the sight of th Plush and Fun ens that he didn D leave." MEMENTO of hi By Isabelle Shelton and Joy Billington the foursome emerged from the family the Emperor wa Washington Star Staff Writers quarters to greet guests who were wait- ted with a rar Last night's historic White House state ing in the East Room. Ford, of course, ean shell called al inner for the Emperor and Empress of had met the Emperor and Empress last nnotrochus us." Adan apan was a warm and cordial affair year, a trip on which Mrs. Ford did not rom the moment the dimunitive couple accompany him. In their toasts the man who had been Empress, mean rrived, a few minutes late, until they Emperor during World War II and the was feasting he eft four hours later, still wreathed in American President who had fought a totally differen miles. Tanan as a Navy officer in the Pacific n of specimens The Washington Post STYLE People / Enter SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1975 To most people in America with Mrs. the White House seems a very ween Prim glamorous place to be and and the They Earn White House dinners sound President particularly exciting But peror and what most people don't un- shaped tab derstand is that for the tables to President and his wife those After dinr Their Pay dinners can often be very hard tertainmei work. Thursday night at the walked int dinner for Emperor Hirohito chatting a of Japan Jerry and Betty Ford press and } At Those earned their salary. the Preside It's making conversation diminutive that's the real killer. appears not Especially when your guests President Dinners don't speak English too well. warm in the And His Majesty, the 74-year- Emperor: old Emperor of the Presiden Chrysanthemum Throne, seem to be 1 seemed limited mainly to a over there.' number of "Ah so's" ("Oh, Emperor: really, in Japanese). President By Sally Quinn Here's an example of just painting 0) how painful it can be: There parently was a two-hour-long dinner, "That's a p on we proper paramedic Oct. 11). -Washington Star Photogr Apher Ray Lustig THE SECRETARY AND THE EMPRESS-Secretary of State Henry Kissinger engages Japanese Empress Nagako in conversation during the State dinner at the White House last night. (Story and more pictures on C-1.) Whale of a Protest Sent to the Emperor By Lee Flor red out of sight of the imperial eyes. Washington Star Staff Writer The lawn was rain-lush green and The airborne banner was the the sun pushing through overcast brainchild of Christine Stevens, an skies as Hirohito, the 124th emperor AWI leader. The idea, she said, was of Japan and the first of his line to to appeal to the emperor to use his visit the continental United States influence on private Japanese CITY ED New York Times Weather: Sunny t tonight. Sunny, n Temperature rang Thursday 54-64. D - NEW YORK, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1975 - 25 cents beyond 50-mile zone from New York City. except Long Island. Higher in Air delivery cities. M 2 United Press International Emperor Hirohito with President Ford and below, Empress Nagako with Betty Ford during a good-humored welcoming ceremony yesterday on the White House lawn. è y C S - HIROHITO VOICES REGRETOVER WAR At White House Ceremonies He Hails U.S. Postwar Aid and Today's Ties By PHILIP SHABECOFF Special to The New York Times WASHINGTON, Oct. 2-Wel- comed by President Ford amid all the pomp the White House can muster, Emperor Hirohito today voiced regret about ftar grash. Arrive With Gifts of Art By Benjamin Forgey Washington Star Staff Writer Among the 2,000 or so gifts the Emperor and Em- press of Japan are said to have brought with them on their first state visit to the United States are 40 objects of a very special nature. These are "Art Treasures from the Imperial Collec tions," an exhibit on view in the Great Hall of the old Smithsonian building through Sunday. An unusual facet of the exhibit is that along with Japanese masterpieces from the past-the show starts in the 13th century and continues into the 20th-there are five paintings by the Empress herself. These are delicate wash paintings at their best when simplest, as om screen painting by Sakai Hoitsu, 'Flowers and Birds of the Twelve Months, 'at the Freer. -Washington Star Photographer John Bowden Emperor Hirohito and his wife are bld farewell by welcoming ceremonies. The royal visitors will stay in President and Mrs. Fordhat the White House after Blair House during their visit. washington Hirohito Arrives in Washington A President Greets an Emperor By Fred Barnes two weeks, we hope to meet gun" had been spotted on a of the American Revolu- Washington Star Staff Writer with Americans from every rooftop near the White tion) President Ford today for- walk of life and to glimpse House, Officials at both institu- mally welcomed Emperor a variety of American But a Secret Service tions said they had no Hirohito of Japan to the sights. spokesman said it was knowledge of anyone being United States, saying his 'We will be happy if we, apparently nothing more on the roof, much less of visit was "an historic occa- too, can contribute to ever- serious than "unauthorized any police charging in to sion with profound impor- lasting friendship between people" - presumably em- check it out. 44m THE NEW YORK TIMES, 1 18 TO 2 United Press International b Mayor Richard J. Daley of Chicago, left, and Emperor Hirohito of Japan during a toast yesterday at a lunch- as eon in the Conrad Hilton Hotel. At rear is Hideki Mazaki, interpreter. Notes on People Hirohito Visits Chicago and Lincoln Farm Visiting a 750-acre Illin- called for stepped-up French tion at the National Academy Skitch Henderson, who has ois farm to see how the corn aid. to Vietnam for recon- of Design, Fifth Avenue near been spending time at his bybeans imported by Japan struction. The 73-year-old 89th Street. vacation home in Sugarbush, are grown and mechanically writer on the moral nature of harvested, Emperor Hirohito man and critic of United Vt., since his release from and Empress Nagako topped States military action in The International Day of prison Aug. 4, was not in- Presidency: News N-5 Ford Lunches With Schmidt; Dines With Hirohito President Ford lunched with former West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt Friday and dined with Japanese Emperor Hirohito. "White House aides who have spent the week preparing for the visits of the Japanese and German VIP's, were calling it WW II foregive and forget day. But it was more than that. It was a graphic demonstration of just how much the world had changed in the last three decades, and in ways that neither visitor would have predicted, Bob Schieffer (CBS) reported. -- AP;UPI;NBC;CBS; (10/3/75) Hirohito Visits Arlington National Cemetery Emperor Hirohito placed flowers Friday at the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington National Cemetary to a 21-gun salute, where many of America's WW II dead are buried. --AP; UPI; Networks (10/3/75) Fords Host Japanese Emperor, Empress at a State Dinner President and Mrs. Ford hosted a state dinner Thursday night in honor of Japanese Emperor Hirohito and the Empress Nagato. In his toast, the Emperor apologized for "that most unfor- tunate war which I deeply deplore," and thanked the American people for their goodwill after the war. President Ford did not mention the war in his toast, ABC reported. The President and Mrs. Ford gave the Emperor and Empress a pair of Japanese symbols of good fortune, long life and wisdom. --- AP; UPI; Morning Shows (10/3/75) Tighter Security at Future Presidential Campaign Appearances Bo Callaway said Friday that all crowds at future president- ial campaign appearances will be screened and purses searched because of the recent attempts on the President's life. --UPI (10/3/75) Hirohito WASHINGTON-BALTIMORE EDITION The shy, scholarly Emperor of Japan pays an unprecedented visit to the U.S. By Edwin O. Reischauer BACKGROUND is our largest overseas trading partner and the pivot of our relations with the transpacific side of the world. Mutual cooperation and trust are necessities for both Americans and Japanese. Most Americans may be aware of this, but many whose memories go back to World War II may still have some reser- vations about Hirohito himself. Was he not behind the mad Japanese effort to conquer all of East Asia; did he not pre- side over the attack on Pearl Harbor? Some Americans may remember news- AP EMPRESS NAGAKO, MRS. FORD, EMPEROR HIROHITO & PRESIDENT FORD MEETING GINGER ROGERS DIPLOMACY The Quiet Gentleman from Japan He was accustomed to waving to the of Williamsburg, Va. There Hirohito crowds with his hat, but it had been sug- rode in an open carriage to the House gested that this might look old-fashioned of Burgesses, and like thousands of tour- in the U.S. The Americans did not have ists before him, fed the ducks on the much use for hats. So the old gentle- grounds of the Williamsburg Inn. He man had practiced way- also found time to smooth over a trou- DAVID BURNETT-PLEDGE HALSTEAD A royal welcome for an arriving Emperor. Top, armed services honor guard provides salute for Hirohito on White House lawn. Above, a warm greeting from Gerald and Betty Ford. At right, Oriental youngsters hail visitor at airport in Newport News, Va. HALSTEAD BURNETT-PLEDGE THE At Willid msburg. lop, Hirchita and Empress Nagako four House at of Bur gesses. Center, printing press. Below, royal couple fass bread info fish pond. Administration: Comment N-6 FBI Investigates Possible Hirohito-Ford Assassination Attempt The FBI said Wednesday it is investigating a report that three men entered the U.S. from Canada with the intent to assassinate visiting Japanese Emperor Hirohito and President Ford. The Canadian Border Patrol was' reported to have alerted U.S. authorities that the three men crossed the border. Hirohito, visiting Williamsburg, Virginia Wednesday, will meet with President Ford Thursday. -- AP; UPI; ABC; NBC (10/1/75) Wallace Ignored Secret Service Advice Gov. George Wallace said Wednesday he ignored the Secret Service advice not to appear at the Maryland shopping center where he was shot three years ago. He added, in a statement read before the Senate subcommittee investigating the Secret Service: "I will make one commitment to the future. I will do my best to follow their advice." -- AP;UPI;NBC (10/1/75) Ford Likes White House Conferences ABC reported Wednesday in a report on the White House conferences, that the President likes the White House conferences and the network aired a report on what the conferences are. "President Ford. who is the concluding speaker at each conference did not take questions from the delegates to the conferences until recently. Now at each conference, he speaks for only three or four minutes and then answers questions for the better part of an hour. He seems to enjoy it thoroughly," Stephen Geer (ABC) reported. "Every effort is made to keep the conferences non-political. There are no planted questions. In fact, the questioners are sometimes hostile. But the political benefit is clear. Public television channels are encouraged to provide day-long live coverage,' Geer said. Asked about the value of the conferences, William Baroody said (on ABC film), "Contributing to the restoration of confidence on the part of our people in all our institutions, not only government but certainly government and their leaders is one key aspect of this. Restoring confidence in their ability and integrity and goodwill in trying to resolve our nation's problems." Asked if the conferences turn out to be politically beneficial for the President, would Baroody object, he replied, "Not at all." -- ABC (10/1/75) R HIROHITO (TOPS N8) BY GEORGE GEDDA WASHINGTON (AP) -- JAPAN'S EMPEROR HIROHITO FORMALLY OPENED A TWO-WEEK STATE VISIT TODAY BY PRAISING THE COMPLETE REVERSAL IN JAPANESE-AMERICAN RELATIONS FOLLOWING THE TRAGIC INTERLUDE'' OF WORLD WAR II. THE EMPEROR WAS GREETED BY PRESIDENT AND MRS. FORD AT A COLORFUL CEREMONIAL WELCOME ON THE SOUTH LAWN OF THE WHITE HOUSE UNDER CHILL, THREATENING OVERCAST SKIES. FULL MILITARY HONORS WERE RENDERED DURING THE CEREMONY, WHICH SIGNALED A NEW LEVEL OF HARMONY BETWEEN THE TWO PACIFIC ALLIES. ''OUR PEOPLES WITHSTOOD THE CHALLENGES OF ONE TRAGIC INTERLUDE, WHEN THE PACIFIC OCEAN, SYMBOL OF TRANQUILITY, WAS INSTEAD A ROUGH AND STORMY SEA, AND HAVE BUILT TODAY UNCHANGING TIES OF FRIENDSHIP AND GOOD WILL, THE EMPEROR DECLARED. IN A STRONG AND STEADY VOICE, THE 74-YEAR-OLD MONARCH SAID, "I FEEL IMMEASURABLY GRATIFIEDBY THIS HAPPY DEVELOPMENT, AND LOOK FORWARD WITH GREAT ANTICIPATION TO THE FUTURE OF OUR RELATIONSHIP.' IN HIS WELCOMING REMARKS, FORD MADE NO REFERENCE TO WORLD WAR II. HE SAID, "AT A TIME WHEN THE BENEFITS OF COOPERATION ARE MUTUALLY ACCLAIMED, YOUR MAJESTY'S VISIT SYMBOLIZES AND STRENGTHENS THE TIES BETWEEN OUR TWO PEOPLES.'' 10-02-75 11:58EDT N048 R WASHINGTON ADD HIROHITO FORD SAID THE RESTORATION OF PEACE AND FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN THE TWO COUNTRIES FULFILLS A GOAL THEY HAD MADE FOR THEMSELVES A CENTURY AGO. THE RED-CARPETED SPEAKER'S STAND WAS RINGED BY ABOUT 2,000 ONLOOKERS RESTRAINED BY A ROPE BARRIER. THE CEREMONY OPENED AS THE PRESIDENT AND MRS. FORD EMERGED FROM THE WHITE HOUSE TO GREET THE EMPEROR'S LIMOUSINE, WHICH WAS ACCOMPANIED BY THREE SECURITY AGENTS RUNNING ALONGSIDE. THE TWO CHIEFS OF STATE SHOOK HANDS AND SEEMED PLEASED TO SEE EACH OTHER. MRS. FORD PRESENTED A BOUQUET OF ROSES TO THE EMPEROR'S WIFE, EMPRESS NAGAKO. THE IMPERIAL COUPLE ARRIVED HERE AFTER A TWO-DAY PRIVATE REST STOP IN WILLIAMSBURG, VA. THEY WILL VISIT FIVE OTHER MAJOR AMERICAN CITIES AND SEVERAL MINOR ONES IN A TWO-WEEK TOUR THAT CONCLUDES IN HAWAII. 10-02-75 12:01EDT N049 R WASHINGTON ADD HIROHITO THE WORLD'S LONGEST REIGNING MONARCH, THE EMPEROR HAS LONG WISHED TO VISIT THE UNITED STATES. BUT RECURRING BILATERAL POLITICAL PROBLEMS HAVE THWARTED THAT AMBITION UNTIL NOW. HE IS THE FIRST EMPEROR IN AN IMPERIAL LINE DATING BACK 14 CENTURIES TO SET FOOT ON THE AMERICAN MAINLAND. THE EMPEROR AND THE PRESIDENT WERE WARMLY APPLAUDED AS THEY STEPPED ONTO THE PLATFORM, STATIONED ON THE WHITE HOUSE LAWN ABOUT 60 FEET FROM THE PRESIDENTIAL RESIDENCE. THE TWO LEADERS WERE DRESSED IN BLUE SUITS. AFTER THE PLAYING OF THE TWO COUNTRIES' NATIONAL ANTHEMS, THE EMPEROR AND THE PRESIDENT REVIEWED ARMY, NAVY, AIR FORCE, MARINE AND COAST GUARD UNITS. A MARINE DRUM AND BUGLE CORPS PLAYED MILITARY MUSIC. 10-02-75 12:03EDT NODO R ADV FOR 10:30 A.M. HIROHITO BY GEORGE GEDDA WASHINGTON (AP) -- JAPAN'S EMPEROR HIROHITO FORMALLY OPENED A JAPANESE-AMERICAN RELATIONS SINCE THE TRAGIC INTERLUDE'' OF WORLD TWO-WEEK STATE VISIT TODAY BY HAILING THE COMPLETE TURNABOUT IN WAR II. CEREMONY THAT SIGNIFIED A NEW LEVEL OF HARMONY BETWEEN THE TWO PACIFIC THE EMPEROR WAS ACCORDED FULL MILITARY HONORS AT A WHITE HOUSE ALLIES. OUR PEOPLE WITHSTOOD THE CHALLENGES OF ONE TRAGIC INTERLUDE, WHEN THE PACIFIC OCEAN, SYMBOL OF TRANQUILLITY, WAS INSTEAD A ROUGH AND AND STORMY SEA, AND HAVE BUILT TODAY UNCHANGING TIES OF FRIENDSHIP GOODWILL, THE EMPEROR SAID IN PREPARED REMARKS. I FEEL IMMEASURABLY GRATIFIED BY THIS HAPPY DEVELOPMENT, AND LOOK FORWARD WITH GREAT ANTICIPATION TO THE FUTURE OF OUR RELATIONSHIP." WITH THE EMPEROR WAS HIS WIFE, EMPRESS NAGAKO. AFTER TWO DAYS OF MEETINGS WITH PRESIDENT FORD, THEY WILL TRAVEL TO FIVE OTHER MAJOR AMERICAN CITIES AND SEVERAL SMALLER ONES. THE EMPEROR'S U.S. VISIT, WHICH BEGAN WITH A TWO-DAY REST IN WILLIAMSBURG, VA., PUTS THE FINAL SEAL ON THE RESTORATION OF JAPANESE-AMERICAN FRIENDSHIP AFTER WORLD WAR II EMNITY. AS IN WILLIAMSBURG, THE SECURITY MEASURES FOR THE IMPERIAL COUPLE WILL BE UNUSUALLY STRICT. PRESIDENT FORD'S LIFE AND HAVE REFRAINED FROM DISCLOSING THE TIMES OF JAPANESE OFFICIALS HAVE BEEN JOLTED BY APPARENT ATTEMPTS ON THE COUPLE'S TRAVELS. THE EMPEROR IS THE FIRST JAPANESE MONARCH TO SET FOOT ON THE AMERICAN MAINLAND. HE IS THE 124TH IN AN IMPERIAL LINE DATING BACK ALMOST 14 CENTURIES. POLITICAL DISCUSSION WAS NOT ON THE WHITE HOUSE AGENDA, IN KEEPING WITH THE COMPLETELY CEREMONIAL NATURE OF THE EMPEROR'S REIGN. AFTER MEETING WITH FORD, THE EMPEROR PLANS AN AFTERNOON VISIT TO THE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM. THE EMPRESS WILL VISIT AN ART GALLERY. A STATE DINNER AT THE WHITE HOUSE ALSO IS PLANNED. 10-02-75 09:12EDT UP-012 (HIROHITO) STRIPES WASHINGTON ON (UPI) -- THE RISING SUN FLEW NEXT TO THE WORLD WAR II. RECEIVE WITH GOODWILL THE EMPEROR WHO LED JAPAN AS WASHINGTON DURING PREPARED TO FLAGPOLES ALONG PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE TODAY, STARS AND SALUTE DUSE RECEPTION REVIEW OF MILITARY HONOR GUARDS, FOR THE A WHITE 21-GUN PRESIDENT AND FORD ORDERED A COLORFUL CEREMONY, INCLUDING FORD AND OF EMPEROR HIROHITO, 74, AND EMPRESS FORMAL SPEECHES JAPANESE DYNASTY TO TO MAKE A STATE VISIT HERE, EACH 000-YEAR-OLD FORMAL HIROHITO, THE FIRST EMPEROR IN THE 3, NAGAKO. CADV FOR 10:30 BE GIVEN AM EDT) AFTER PLAYING OF BOTH NATIONAL PREPARED ANTHEMS. FORD HIROHITO PREPARED FOR TODAY'S RECEPTION. "IT IN HAS REMARKS LONG BEEN MY WISH TO COME TO THE UNITED STATES," HE TOLD AMERICANS "FOR LOOK BOTH BACK AND FORWARD INTO HISTORY. NOTED THIS IS THE EVE OF THE U.S. BICENTENNIAL WHEN TO THE ITS FUTURE, RELATIONSHIPS HE SAID. BETWEEN JAPAN AND THE UNITED STATES REFLECT AND LOOK ON PAST ME ALSO, THIS VISIT IS A VALUABLE OPPORTUNITY TO AND WHEN STORMY OCEAN, SYMBOL OF TRANQUILITY, WAS INTERLUDE, "OUR THE PEOPLES PACIFIC WITHSTOOD THE CHALLENGES OF ONE TRAGIC FUTURE OF I LOOK FORWARD WITH GREAT ANTICIPATION OF TO THE AND GOODWILL. SEA, AND HAVE BUILT TODAY UNCHANGING TIES INSTEAD FRIENDSHIP A ROUGH OUR RELATIONSHIP.' UPI 10-02 09:04 AED UP-052 CHIROHITO THREAT) WASHINGTON (UPI) -- THE FBI TODAY SAID IT IS INVESTIGATING A REPORT THAT THREE MEN RIDING IN AN AUTOMOBILE BEARING A CALIFORNIA LICENSE PLATE MAY BE INTENT ON ASSASSINATING JAPANESE EMPEROR HIROHITO. HIROHITO, VISITING IN WILLIAMSBURG, VA., IS SCHEDULED TO MEET PRESIDENT FORD TOMORROW. THE CANADIAN BORDER PATROL WAS REPORTED TO HAVE ALERTED U.S. AUTHORITIES THAT THE THREE MEN CROSSED INTO THE UNITED STATES AND MAY BE INTENT ON ASSASSINATING THE EMPEROR. A SPOKESMAN SAID THE FBI RECEIVED "INFORMATION ALONG THOSE LINES FROM ANOTHER AGENCY AND WE ARE AT PRESENT CONDUCTING AN ACTIVE INVESTIGATION." HE DECLINED TO AMPLIFY THE STATEMENT EXCEPT TO SAY, "WE DON'T KNOW WHEN THEY CROSSED THE BORDER." UPI 10-01 11:49 AED R HIRONIT BY GEORGE CEDDA WASSINGTO: (AP) -- JAPAR'S THE PRIME PURPOSE OF HIS TWO-WEEK MISSION Here IS TO THANK THE AMERICAN PEOPLE FOR HELPING HIS COUNTRY RISE AGAIN FROM THE ASHES or WORLD WAR II. AFTER A WHITE HOUSE STATE DINNER THURSDAY NIGHT, FEATURING LOBSTER RICE, THE EXPEROR TOUCHED BRIEFLY UN THE WAR AND MAILED THE AMERICA ROLE IN ITS AFTERMATH. IT WAS ** MOST UNFORTUNATE WALL, WHICH I DEEPLY DEPLORE,' The EMPEROR SAID IN A TOAST TO PRESIDENT FORD. THE MONARCH THEN PAID TRIBUTE TO ONE OF THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT'S MOST BELEAGUERED PROGRAMS -- FOREIGN AID. ''THERE'S ONE THING IN PARTICULAR WHICH'I HAVE HOPED TO CONVEY THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.' HIROHITO SAID. 'THAT IS, TO EXIEND I. BY cws WORDS MY GRATITUDE TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE FRIENDLY HAND OF GOOD WILL AND ASSISTA CE THEIR OREAT COUNTRY ACCORDED US FOR OUR POSIVAR RECONSTRUCTION. IN HIS REMARKS, DID NOT PAST DIFFERENCES BETWELN THE TVO COUNTRIES. THE PRESIDE JT SAID THE UNITED STATES PLACES ''THE HIGHEST POSSIBLE VALUE OUR DISTINCTIVE AND MUTUALLY BENEFICIAL RELATIONS AND HE STR ESED U.S. **DETERNI ATION TO PRESERVE AND STRENGTHEN** THESE TIES. A MANTIC LAP OVER THE :- THE OFFICIAL TRANSLAII OF THE IN EMPEROR'S FEELINGS ABOUT WORLD II. AVE AMERICANS **DEPLORE** COMMUTED SOMETHI STRONGER THAT THE 1:XI *ARRANTEE. in EMPEROR SPOKE THROUGH AV INTERPRETER, DEVIED ANY SUGGESTION THAT THE OFFICIAL PARTY USI AND ANOTHER FoR THE AMERICA AUDI THE PERSON, ACCOMPANIED BY LEAVES SATURDA FOR NEW YORK, THE ON THEIR TWO-WEEK U.S. TOUR. 12-83-75 39:48EDT UPI 10-01 04:39 PED TO THE UNITED STATES. THE PERIOD MARKS THE VISIT OF EMPOROR HIROHITO AND EMPRES GAKO "JAPAN-UNITED STATES FRIENDSHIP DAYS." RESOLUTION PROCLAIMING THE PERIOD BETWEEN SEPT. 30 AND OCT. 13 WASHINGTON (UPI) -- THE SENATE WEDNESDAY UNANIMOUSLY APPROVED A (OTHORIH) UP-117 UP-076 (PLANE) WASHINGTON (UPI) -- A SMALL PROPELLER-DRIVEN PLANE FLEW INTO RESTRICTED AIR SPACE OVER THE WHITE HOUSE TODAY WHILE PRESIDENT FORD WAS OUTSIDE WELCOMING JAPANESE EMPEROR HIROHITO. THE SECRET SERVICE ASKED THE FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION TO CONDUCT AN IMMEDIATE INVESTIGATION. THE INCIDENT OCCURRED DESPITE SOME OF THE TIGHTEST SECURITY EVER SEEN AT THE WHITE HOUSE FOR A VISITING DIGNITARY. THE PLANE PULLED A STREAMER THAT READ, "EMPEROR HIROHITO, PLEASE SAVE OUR WHALES, AND WAS THOUGHT TO BE A PROTEST OF JAPANESE FISHING PRACTICES THAT ENVIRONMENTALISTS CONSIDER A THREAT TO SURVIVAL OF THE WORLD'S WHALE POPULATION. PROTESTS AGAINST JAPAN'S FISHING PRACTICES WERE PLANNED THROUGHOUT HIROHITO'S AMERICAN TRIP. PRESIDENTIAL PRESS SECRETARY RON NESSEN TOLD REPORTERS MORE THAN AN HOUR LATER THAT HE COULD NOT PROVIDE ANY FURTHER DETAILS ABOUT THE FLIGHT AND THAT "THE FAA IS INVESTIGATING" AT THE REQUEST OF THE SECRET SERVICE. AN FAA SPOKESMAN SAID ONLY THAT "WE ARE CHECKING INTO IT RIGHT NOW." AIRCRAFT ARE NOT ALLOWED TO FLY OVER THE WHITE HOUSE FOR SECURITY REASONS. BUT THIS PLANE PASSED DIRECTLY OVER THE EXECUTIVE MANSION JUST AFTER FORD HAD GREETED HIROHITO AND A FULL CEREMONIAL WELCOME WAS BEGINNING ON THE SOUTH LAWN. NEITHER OF THE LEADERS APPEARED TO NOT ICE THE PLANE. UPI 10-02 01:28 PED N018 R HIROHITO BY GEORGE GEDDA WASHINGTON (AP) -- JAPAN'S EMPEROR HIROHITO SAYS THE PRIME PURPOSE OF HIS TWO-WEEK MISSION HERE IS TO THANK THE AMERICAN PEOPLE FOR HELPING HIS COUNTRY RISE AGAIN FROM THE ASHES OF WORLD WAR II. AFTER A WHITE HOUSE STATE DINNER THURSDAY NIGHT, FEATURING LOBSTER AND WHITE RICE, THE EMPEROR TOUCHED BRIEFLY ON THE WAR AND HAILED THE AMERICAN ROLE IN ITS AFTERMATH. IT WAS A MOST UNFORTUNATE WAR, WHICH I DEEPLY DEPLORE, THE EMPEROR SAID IN A TOAST TO PRESIDENT FORD. THE MONARCH THEN PAID TRIBUTE TO ONE OF THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT'S MOST BELEAGUERED PROGRAMS -- FOREIGN AID. 'THERE'S ONE THING IN PARTICULAR WHICH I HAVE HOPED TO CONVEY TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE,' HIROHITO SAID. 'THAT IS, TO EXTEND IN MY OWN WORDS MY GRATITUDE TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE FRIENDLY HAND OF GOOD WILL AND ASSISTANCE THEIR GREAT COUNTRY ACCORDED US FOR OUR POSTWAR RECONSTRUCTION. IN HIS REMARKS, FORD DID NOT MENTION PAST DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE TWO COUNTRIES. THE PRESIDENT SAID THE UNITED STATES PLACES ' THE HIGHEST POSSIBLE VALUE ON OUR DISTINCTIVE AND MUTUALLY BENEFICIAL RELATIONS'' AND HE STRESSED U.S. 'DETERMINATION TO PRESERVE AND STRENGTHEN'' THESE TIES. A SEMANTIC FLAP DEVELOPED OVER THE USE, IN THE OFFICIAL TRANSLATION, OF THE WORD 'DEPLORE'' IN CHARACTERIZING THE EMPEROR'S FEELINGS ABOUT WORLD WAR II. SEVERAL BILINGUAL JAPANESE AND AMERICANS SAID ''DEPLORE'' CONNOTED SOMETHING MUCH STRONGER THAN THE ORIGINAL JAPANESE TEXT WARRANTED. THE EMPEROR SPOKE THROUGH AN INTERPRETER. JAPANESE OFFICIALS HEATEDLY DENIED ANY SUGGESTION THAT THE OFFICIAL PARTY WAS USING ONE WORD FOR RELAY HOME AND ANOTHER FOR THE AMERICAN AUDIENCE. THE EMPEROR, ACCOMPANIED BY HIS WIFE, EMPRESS NAGAKO, LEAVES SATURDAY FOR NEW YORK, THE THIRD STOP ON THEIR TWO-WEEK U.S. TOUR. 10-03-75 09:48EDT N084 R WASHINGTON - ADD HIROHITO (N049) APPEARED DURING THE CEREMONY AND PROMPTLY STIRRED A PROTEST FROM THE A LOW-FLYING RED PLANE, TRAILING A BANNER SAYING SAVE THE WHALES'' WHITE HOUSE. FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION FOR AN APPARENT VIOLATION OF FLIGHT PRESS SECRETARY RON NESSEN SAID THE PLANE HAD BEEN REPORTED TO THE RESTRICTIONS SAID IN THE AREA OF THE WHITE HOUSE. A SPOKESMAN FOR THE FAA THE AGENCY WAS INVESTIGATING. PLANE WAS DESIGNED TO ENLIST THE HELP OF HIROHITO TO STOP THE THE SPONSOR OF THE PLANE, THE ANIMAL WELFARE INSTITUTE, SAID A WHALING. THE INSTITUTE SAID THE PLANE WAS OVER THE POTOMAC COMMERCIAL RIVER ABOUT HALF-MILE FROM THE WHITE HOUSE. 10-02-75 14:17EDT N085 R UP-052 R B CORRESPONDENTS: THE BAIRD AUDITORIUM OF THE SMITHSONIAN MUSE UM OF NATURAL HISTORY--LOCATED IN THE BASEMENT LEVEL-WILL SERVE AS A PRESS CENTER FOR THIS AFTERNOON'S VISIT OF THE JAPANESE EMPEROR. THERE WILL BE A FACT SHEET ON THE MUSEUM AND A RUNDOWN ON WHAT THE EMPEROR WILL BE LOOKING AT AVAILABLE TO THE MEDIA. THE MALL ENTRANCE ONLY WILL BE OPEN TO MEDIA REPRESENTATIVES UPON PRESENTATION OF PROPER CREDENTIALS. CONTACT: JERRY LIPSON, 381-5911. UPI 10-02 11:50 AED UP-053 (HIROHITO) (BY JOHN F. BARTON) WASHINGTON (UPI) -- PRESIDENT FORD WELCOMED JAPANESE EMPEROR HIROHITO WITH FULL CEREMONIAL HONORS AND FANFARE TODAY AND TOLD HIROHITO HIS VISIT WAS "A HISTORIC OCCASION OF PROFOUND IMPORTANCE." HIROHITO, 74, WAS PERSONALLY GREETED BY FORD AS HE STEPPED FROM A BLACK LIMOUSINE AT THE WHITE HOUSE IN THE FIRST STATE VISIT EVER MADE HERE BY A RULER IN THE 3,000-YEAR-OLD JAPANESE DYNASTY. HIROHITO AND EMPRESS NAGAKO RECEIVED A 21-GUN SALUTE AND WERE CHEERED BY HUNDREDS OF GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS AND WHITE HOUSE WORKERS AS THE STARS AND STRIPES AND THE RISING SUN FLEW SIDE BY SIDE ON FLAGPOLES AROUND WASHINGTON. FORD MADE NO REFERENCE TO WORLD WAR II, IN WHICH JAPAN ATTACKED PEARL HARBOR WHILE HIROHITO WAS EMPEROR. BUT THE JAPANESE LEADER SAID THE TWO COUNTRIES HAVE PUT THE ISSUE BEHIND THEM. "OUR PEOPLES WITHSTOOD THE CHALLENGES OF ONE TRAGIC INTERLUDE, WHEN THE PACIFIC OCEAN, THE SYMBOL OF TRANQUILITY, WAS INSTEAD A ROUGH AND STORMY SEA, AND HAVE BUILT TODAY UNCHANGING TIES OF FRIENDSHIP AND GOODWILL," HE SAID. "I FEEL IMMEASURABLY GRATIFIED BY THIS HAPPY DEVELOPMENT, AND LOOK FORWARD WITH GREAT ANTICIPATION TO THE FUTURE OF OUR RELATIONSHIP." UPI 10-02 11:53 AED UP-083 (HIROHITO) (BY JOHN F. BARTON) EXTREMELY NAGAKO TOOK A CARRIAGE RIDE THROUGH THIS COLONIAL CITY TODAY WILLIAMSBURG, VA. (UPI) -- JAPANESE EMPEROR HIROHITO AND EMPRESS BY TIGHT SECURITY. THEY ALSO TOOK A LOOK AT DOCUMENTS AMID SIGNED PATRICK HENRY. TIGHTLY TOURISTS AROUND THE HORSE-DRAWN CARRIAGE THAT SOME OF THE ABOUT 50 JAPANESE AND AMERICAN SECURITY AGENTS WERE CORDONED SO COULD LINING HISTORIC DUKE OF GLOUCESTER STREET COMPLAINED 4,000 THEY NOT SEE THE IMPERIAL COUPLE. STATE AFTER VISIT. LONG FLIGHT FROM TOKYO TUESDAY TO BEGIN AN HISTORIC TWO-WEEK AND FIT THE EMPEROR A AND EMPRESS, BOTH IN THEIR 70S, LOOKED RESTED UPI 10-01 02:06 PED UPI 10-02 12:08 PED UP-057 ADD 1 HIROHITO, WASHINGTON (UP-053) THE PRESIDENT AND THE EMPEROR MET UNDER SOME OF THE HEAVIEST SECURITY EVER ACCORDED A STATE VISITOR AS A CROWD OF ABOUT 2,000 WATCHED, INCLUDING MANY CHILDREN WAVING JAPANESE AND AMERICAN FLAGS. FORD AND HIROHITO WORE THREE-PIECE BLACK SUITS FOR THE HISTORIC MEETING AND THE PRESIDENT EXTENDED "A WARM AND HEARTFELT WELCOME TO THE UNITED STATES ON THIS HISTORIC OCCASSION OF PROFOUND IMPORTANCE." "OUR PEOPLES ARE BOUND TOGETHER BY A MULTITUDE OF CULTURAL AND PERSONAL TIES," FORD SAID. "WE EARNESTLY HOPE YOUR VISIT TO WASHINGTON AND AROUND THE UNITED STATES WILL BE AS IMPORTANT PERSONALLY AS IT IS HISTORICALLY TO BOTH OUR COUNTRIES." THE EMPEROR'S REMARKS WERE IN JAPANESE AND WERE TRANSLATED BY AN INTERPRETER. "ALTHOUGH OUR STAY IN YOUR COUNTRY IS FOR BUT A BRIEF TWO WEEKS," HE SAID, "WE HOPE TO MEET WITH AMERICANS FROM EVERY WALK OF LIFE, AND TO GLIMPSE A VARIETY OF AMERICAN SIGHTS. "WE WILL BE HAPPY IF WE, TOO, CAN CONTRIBUTE TO EVERLASTING FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN OUR TWO PEOPLES THROUGH OUR VISIT." SHORTLY AFTER HIROHITO ARRIVED, A SMALL, PROPELLER-DRIVEN PLANE FLEW OVER THE WHITE HOUSE, WHERE AIR SPACE IS RESTRICTED, PULLING A BANNER WHICH READ "EMPEROR HIROHITO, PLEASE SAVE OUR WHALES." THE IMPERIAL COUPLE HAD ENCOUNTERED SIMILAR DEMONSTRATIONS IN COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG BY COLLEGE STUDENTS WHO BELIEVE JAPANESE FISHING PRACTICES ENDANGER WHALES. UPI 10-02 12:12 PED UP-058 UP-109 RB (U.S. JAPAN FRIENDSHIP) WASHINGTON (UPI) -- PRESIDENT FORD TODAY ISSUED A PROCLAMATION TO DESIGNATE OCT. 2-13 -- THE FULL SPAN OF AN OFFICIAL VISIT BY JAPANESE EMPEROR HIROHITO -- AS JAPAN-UNITED STATES FRIENDSHIP DAYS." THE PROCLAMATION SAID, "THIS VISIT WILL BE THE FIRST STATE VISIT TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY A REIGNING EMPEROR OF JAPAN." THE PRESIDENT SAID THE TRIP OF HIROHITO AND EMPRESS NAGAKO "SYMBOLIZES THE CLOSE TIES OF FRIENDSHIP, GOOD WILL AND COMMON GOALS TO WHICH THE JAPANESE AND AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE DEDICATED" AND IT "WILL CONTRIBUTE IMMEASURABLY TO MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING AND RESPECT" BETWEEN THE TWO NATIONS. FORD URGED AMERICANS "TO OBSERVE THIS PERIOD WITH APPROPRIATE CEREMONIES AND ACTIVITIES". UPI 10-02 03:29 PED