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Topic	Trump saluting Japanese on CNN right now
TheMikh 05/26/19 8:51:32 PM #10:	Zikten posted... PrincessCadance posted... What does the emperor do? Nothing really. It's all for show and tradition. The end of WW2 stripped the emperors of any real power Even before that they weren't really in charge. During the war, the leader of the Japanese army was the real ruler of Japan And in ancient times Shoguns would literally lock up Emperors in palaces and make them do what they say Japanese Emperors really actually have a long history of not much power to my understanding, between meiji and showa, the emperor had absolute power (though the government also had a parliament / constitution) but as a formality didn't exercise that power --- https://imgur.com/A0TAfek <cite>TheMikh posted [p:922409539] in Trump salu... [t:77742206]...</cite> <quote><cite>Zikten posted...</cite> <quote><cite>PrincessCadance posted...</cite> <quote>What does the emperor do?</quote> Nothing really. It's all for show and tradition. The end of WW2 stripped the emperors of any real power Even before that they weren't really in charge. During the war, the leader of the Japanese army was the real ruler of Japan And in ancient times Shoguns would literally lock up Emperors in palaces and make them do what they say Japanese Emperors really actually have a long history of not much power</quote> to my understanding, between meiji and showa, the emperor had absolute power (though the government also had a parliament / constitution) but as a formality didn't exercise that power --- https://imgur.com/A0TAfek</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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