The Emperor as Culture  

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Michiko, Hasegawa

Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Japan Echo vol. 34 no. 5 (Oct. 2007), page 61-66.
Topik: The Emperor

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The reason the Japanese monarchy has been so frequently misunderstood is that it is simultaneosly a political and a cultural institution. The confusion is apparent even in the current Constitution of Japan (1947). Article 1 states, "The Emperor shall be the symbol of the State and of the unity of the people, derivinghis position from the will of the people with whom resides sovereign power." Bit is this a political or a culture description? A constitutional provision would ordinarily be asummed to be political in nature. But what kind of political definition is " the symbol of the State and of the unity of the people"? The word symbol is found predominantly in the context of subjects like religion and the arts; that it should corp up in the text of a modern constitution is actually rather mystifying.

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