单词 | 天皇 |
释义 | 天皇 “ I'll bet if you look at pictures of world leaders over20 years meeting the emperor in Japan, they don't bow,” Kristol said. On December25,1926, Hirohito became Emperor of Japan. On August15th,1945, the Japanese emperor’s sighing his name on the capitulation ushered in the ending of the war. Billions of people exclaimed worldwide for the shining of peace again. News photos of President Barack Obama bowing to Japan's emperor have incensed critics here, who said the US leader should stand tall when representing America overseas. But all the emperor's statements have to be approved by the prime minister's office. Not surprisingly, most of what he says is bland. But the Japanese nationalists who urge strengthening the Crysthanamum Throne choose to ignore this detail, as do their European guests. Critics on the American right are wrong to carp at Mr Obama’s bowing to kings and emperors. “It's like a dream to be able to celebrate the day of our golden wedding right next to the emperor today,” Michiko said. Nam says Japanese prime ministers and emperors have apologized several times but they were merely expressing words. A group of Japanese aristocrats, worried by ever- greater foreign encroachment on Japan, had overthrown the centuries- old system of the Shogun, who acted as regent for the emperor. Japan's imperial palace said Friday a grandchild of the emperor had skipped school after suffering from anxiety over“the wild behaviour of a few boys, ” but denied she had been bullied. It took defeat in the second world war and an American occupation to curtail the powers of Japan’s emperor. Yet many Japanese, says Yamashita, want the emperor to continue the long tradition of leading Shinto rituals, encouraging age- old cultural practices, and inspiring the nation. The new president of the council and the “ high representative” for foreign affairs may sound as if they have wandered off the set of“The Mikado”, but they could have clout and resources. The book’s sweep is Japan since1989, the historic year when Emperor Akihito ascended the throne, the Heisei eraroughly meaning“ peace everywhere” began and Japan’s economic bubble burst. It opens with the story of a Japanese midwife, Orito Aibagawa, who in 1799 thwarts a senior adviser to the emperor to save the life of a newborn princeling and his concubine mother. Once supported by the patronage of emperors, sumo has roots going back nearly1,500 years. In an annual ritual, the Japanese emperor makes an offering of rice harvested from paddies within the palace grounds to Shinto deities. In the decades up to the end of the second world war, children were forced to memorise the rescript and recite it, word for word, before a portrait of the emperor. Crown Prince Naruhito and Crown Princess Masako, as well as the emperor's second son Prince Akishino and his wife Princess Kiko, joined him on the balcony. Interesting fact: Pufferfish has been made illegal to be eaten by the Emperor of Japan. Before he assumed the throne, then-Crown Prince Akihito complained that being emperor meant becoming a robot. |
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