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eign. The designated Emperor, or Tenno, ruled by divinity and heredity. The Emperor was believed to be the direct descendant of the kami. Thus it was sacrilege to violate this divinity. The Japanese people believed this since no Emperor had ever been overthrown; however his position is mostly symbolic and he portrays a figurehead status. Though limited in power, all dominant statutes of power such as the Fujiwara and Hojo regents to the Minamoto, Ashikaga and Tokugawa shoguns have all respected the Emperor.
Today the imperial palace continues to reside in the Japanese capital city of Tokyo, formally known as Edo. As a result of World War II defeat, the Emperor declared his humanity and thus in the Japanese constitution the Emperors position is one of state symbol not divinity. Today's Emperor Heisei (Akihito) is the 125th Emperor and was crowned on November 12th, 1990.
THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE JAPANESE IMPERIAL LINE:.
The very beginning of the Japanese imperial line was said to have been started by the mythical Divine Warrior Jimmu Tenno. Jimmu Tenno was believed to have been in direct blood line to the Sun Goddess, Amaterasu. As history unfolds the early accounts of Japanese history remains quite unclear. There are general notions of events, but because the Japanese did not have a writing system until the Heian Period, the Chinese were the ones who created many of the historical details. At the time in China, the Han Dynasty had written accounts of the once matriarchal society. One such account was the "History of the Wei Kingdom", or in Japanese it was "Gishiwa Jinden" (247 AD), in which describes Queen Himiko of Yamatai.
This historical account included the description of a hundred states, or tribes that seemed to be unified under the imperial clan headed by kings or queens, in which Queen Himiko in the Yayoi period, was mentioned.
The dominant ethinic group is the Japanese, a Mongoloid people. ... Written Japanese is complex, being derived from Chinese. The Kato dailect, spoken in the Tokyo area, is considered standard spoken japanese. ... Japan produces a wide range of metallic minerals. ... Japan is a constitutional monarchy, with a hereditary empreror and a parlimentary system of the government. ...
When the Japanese surrendered, General Douglas MacArthur lead the US occuption of Japan. ... He then turned his focus to the democratization of Japan. ... It changed the government to a constitutional monarchy, leaving the divine emperor of Japan with no power. ... The US remained in Japan for six months, because Japan had no military. After the war Japan and the USA became allies. ...
However, more attention is probably devoted to the Revolution of 1917 because it did mark the end of the Russian monarchy. ... In January of 1904, Japan attacked the Russian fleet in the east, launching Russia into war. The Russo-Japanese war cost each side about 450,000 lives and caused Russia to suffer a loss of prestige both at home and abroad. ... Nicholas also set up a unified executive branch and ended the war with Japan. The post-1905 monarchy was a completely different monarchy; it was now subject to a constitution. ...
Another reason I thought researching Japan would be beneficial is because of the noted health and industrial advances made by Japan since the second world war. ... The economy of Japan is bases around the 67.7 million working Japanese who contribute to this powerful economy. ... The people who make up the nation of Japan live in what is called a constitutional monarchy. This is a system of government in which the people are protected by a constitution and the leader of the government comes from the family in control of the monarchy. The country has been a monarchy since its founding in 66...
This intense period of modernization gained the respect that Japan demanded, and also made Japan a feared nation. The Japanese political structure in 1900 was based on the Prussian style, Constitutional monarchy. ... Japan's industrial and economy growth was one of the most successful ever seen. ... This therefore displayed Japan's imperialistic strengths, and also began to instill fear into countries such as Russia, due to Japan's military strength's. ... Britain became allies with Japan in the 1902, this move greatly complimented the Japanese army, and was a large fac...
From 1185 to 1868 the Samurai was the premier warrior of the Japanese. ... Throughout Japan you see examples of beauty. ... The Japanese monarchy has been the spiritual and temporal focus of the Japanese people for over four thousand years. ... Yet during this transformation, Japan did not lose its cultural beauty. There has been a resurgence of the old art forms in modern Japanese culture. ...
In 1945, August 6th the world's first atomic bomb was dropped on the City of Hiroshima in Japan. ... Was the U.S. justified in using the atomic bomb against Japan? ... The U.S. would have gone into Japan. ... Japan would have continued to fight the war, and this would have taken much longer. ... According to long time historian Barton Bernstein "Taken together, some of these alternatives [to dropping the atomic bomb] - promising to retain the Japanese monarchy, awaiting the soviets" entry and even more conventional bombing very probably could have ended the war before the dread...
Background Japan is an island nation located in northeastern Asia between the north Pacific and the Sea of Japan. ... Most of Japanese reside in urban area. Japan is a constitutional monarchy governed under the constitution of 1947 by a Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, and his cabinet. ... Japan is classified one of the "mostly free " economies. ... The world's eyes are upon Asia, especially Japan. ...
Born January 31st, 1935 in Ose, a remote mountain village on the smallest of Japan's major islands, Kenzaburo Oe was only 6-years-old when the United States declared war on Japan after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor (Shelton, Sonya par.2). ... After the war, the Americans took control of all Japanese education and taught the children about democracy, Oe agreed with the Americans' ideas more than the monarchy based ideas and values of Japan. ... When he was young his grandmother told him the legends of the Japanese culture. ... The book describes how the young boys were brought up and the ...
