The Imperial Coronation Commission has definitely decided that representatives of newspapers and ews agencies will not be permitted to be present at the Coronation Cermonies to be held in Kyoto this November.
The principal Japanese filed a petition with the Commission recently that select press representa tives be permitted to watch the proceedings, pointing out that the personal attendance of such sentatives would make possible graphic reports of such an important function which reports, if issued by an official committee in the form of bulletins (as is the plan at present), would be shorn of much of the glamour that the trained reporter can invest the function with, The Imperial Coronation Commission Hus, however, decided that the press will not be admitted, the chief veason being that there, would not be enough room in the halls owing to the large number of extra dignitaries from other lands who would have to be accommodated.
After the ceremonies are over, press representatives will be allow: ed to visit the various halls, however, while the Imperial Coronation Commission has promised to estabolish a press bureau where every information will be available to writers. Whether this decision in-eludes representatives of foreign papers has not been ascertained as yet.
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