10 NOVEMBER 1990, page 21

It's Their Funeral

Peter Mullen on the way the Church of England has trivialised death FUNERALS are not what they used to be. I went to a hospital chapel to pay last respects to a friend's mother.......

Getting To Meet The Emperor

Michael Lewis finally meets the Emperor of Japan, who is to be crowned on Monday MY INVITATION to meet the Emperor of Japan came this summer, as I sat alone in a squalid hotel......