** FILE ** Emperor Hirohito waves to cheering crowd as he makes the annual New Year appearance on the glass-encased balcony at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo in this file photo taken on Jan. 2, 1986. Japan's former Emperor Hirohito stopped visiting a Tokyo war shrine at the center of Japan's diplomatic flash point because of displeasure over its 1978 inclusion of executed top war criminals, according to his former chamberlain's diary published by a major newspaper Thursday, April 26, 2007. (AP Photo/File)