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Indeed, South Korean President Lee Myung-bak has used the occasion to demand a formal apology for the war from the Japanese emperor, and financial compensation for Korean women who were forced to serve Japanese soldiers in military brothels during the war.
Keynes RebornTOKYO – In the fourth century, Japan’s
emperor
looked out from a small mountain near his palace and noticed that something was missing: smoke rising from people’s kitchens.
Appalled at the circumstances of the Japanese people, who were largely peasants, the
emperor
decided to suspend taxation.
The people were so grateful to the
emperor
– who became known as Nintoku
(Emperor
with Virtue and Benevolence) – that they volunteered to repair his palace.
The
emperor
was the supreme paterfamilias, his benevolent rule reciprocated by the obedience of his ministers and subjects, while family members were fixed in their appropriate hierarchical relationships.
In his 19 years as Rome’s emperor, Marcus Aurelius faced nearly constant war, a horrific plague, and a coup attempt.
In Hans Christian Andersen’s fable, the
emperor
had no clothes; he was not stripped of them.
President Barack Obama’s first visit to China last November, in which he accepted the role of pliant suitor at the court of the emperor, strengthened the impression of a deal between today’s great power and tomorrow’s.
India’s history and culture, from Asoka, its mythical
emperor
in the third century BC, to Gandhi, push it to emphasize ethics and to consider itself an “exceptional” nation in its relationship with the world.
They refused to write a constitution permitting power to be concentrated in the hands of a leader legitimized by the
emperor.
One oligarch, Yamagata Aritomo, made the bureaucracy immune to political meddling by obtaining a personal communication from the
emperor
that could never be overruled.
When she graduated, in 1905, the university nominated her for its highest distinction, an award marked by the presentation of a ring engraved with the initials of the
emperor.
During the war, the
emperor
was omnipotent in theory, but relatively powerless in fact.
From Alexander the Great to Stalin the Cruel, variants of that strategy have been used to keep nations in thrall to the will of an
emperor.
On November 19, thousands of people lined the streets to catch a glimpse of Kennedy as she made her way from Tokyo Station to the Imperial Palace, around a kilometer away, by horse-drawn carriage to present her credentials to the
emperor.
The countries along Zheng’s route therefore recall his adventures not just as initiatives to promote trade and establish commercial links, but also as direct military intervention in their affairs, under the pretext of ushering in a harmonious world order under China’s
emperor.
But the modern Silk Road’s establishment will also mark a step toward reinvigorating the ancient Chinese concept of tianxia, in which the Chinese
emperor
was considered the divinely appointed ruler of the entire known world.
It is said to be an excellent chronicle of the court’s day-to-day goings-on, revealing, for example, that the
emperor
celebrated Christmas as a boy, that he had nose surgery in his youth, and how often he met with whom.
As a young sovereign (imperial regent at age 20;
emperor
at 25), he had to assume contradictory roles: divine pater familias of the Japanese state and Supreme Commander of the imperial armed forces that were colonizing Japan’s Asian neighbors.
Japan’s notorious collective inability to come to terms with its past is deeply entwined with its inability to understand this
emperor.
Foreign Minister Taro Aso, another possible successor to Koizumi, has called for the Japanese
Emperor
to pray at Yasukuni.
In the political realm, Meiji reformers were well aware of Anglo-American ideas and institutions, but deliberately turned to German models because they were deemed more suitable to a country with an
emperor.
India’s Hindu extremists have long considered it humiliating that a monument built by a Muslim
emperor
could be Hindu-majority India’s most recognizable site.
Like the bad courtiers against whom Confucius warned, they went to Beijing and told the
emperor
what they thought he wanted to hear, not what the situation really was in the city.
It was then that the Japanese people realized that "the
emperor"
(specifically the government) had no clothes.
The show’s central piece was a giant painting in the European (Jesuit) style depicting the envoys of the Western world lining up to pay respect to the Chinese
emperor.
So, no matter what the Middle Kingdom’s newest
emperor
might claim, development with Chinese characteristics is really only for China.
But the polity lacked a constitutional mechanism for civilian control of the military, while the
emperor
was the designated supreme commander.
And the semi-divine Japanese
Emperor
was brought down to earth.
The regent of the Guangxu Emperor, who became the eleventh
emperor
of the Qing Dynasty at the age of three, was the Empress Dowager Cixi.
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