Sentence examples for emperor system from inspiring English sources

But I would say that the roots of the war lay in our emperor system, and it bothers me that the emperor never apologized or accepted responsibility.

The cloistered emperor system continued for a long period, although the emperors Shirakawa, Toba, and Go-Shirakawa were the only ones to wield absolute behind-the-scenes power.

Oë, who writes a monthly column in the daily newspaper Asahi Shimbun, has long been a target of Japanese conservatives for scourging the emperor system that survived the defeat of 1945.

The right-wing groups, in turn, charge that the peace groups use Hiroshima to advance a left-wing agenda that includes the abolition of the emperor system in Japan.

Of course the emperor system survived, and of our many worries about Japan these days, worship of the studiously bland Emperor Akihito, the son of Hirohito, is not among them.

"My guess is like this: they will keep the Kim family as a social and political institution like the emperor system in Japan, offering symbolic and moral power for North Koreans, but are likely to establish a collective leadership system in which the military will play a key role," said Shin Gi-wook, director of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific ReStanfordenter at Stanford.

But if Congress prefers abdication, a two-emperor system isn't built to last.

After drawing out the theoretical structures of Taiyô to tetsu, I conclude by suggesting that in terms of its relation to criticism and literary history, Mishima's project and the problematic posed by it closely parallels the question of the emperor-system (tennôsei) and its own problems of cultural representation.

Later emperors found the Hongwu emperor's system of highly centralized power and fragmented government structure inefficient and inconvenient.

Some small measure of stability again returned at this point, with the empire split into a Tetrarchy of two greater and two lesser emperors, a system that staved off civil wars for a short time until 312 AD.

The Yongzheng emperor transformed this system into one which provided for a revenue stream specifically for local government.