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COPYRIGHT 1994 Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service
WASHINGTON _ You're the emperor of Japan and you've got a 16-day, 10-city tour of the United States to plan. What to do?
Whatever your government tells you. The emperor, it must be said, has no say. Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko of Japan begin a coast-to-coast trip Friday in Atlanta, their first visit as Their Imperial Majesties _ yet with a status much diminished since the days the heir to the Chrysanthemum Throne was considered a deity. Under Japan's postwar constitution, written mainly by a victorious United States and its allies, the monarchy is strictly symbolic, a creature of the elected government. So even the emperor's travel schedule and official events are dictated by the Japanese cabinet....
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