cover image: Role of the Monarchy in Expanding Japan's Diplomatic Reach:Tracing Emperor Akihito's visits to India

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Role of the Monarchy in Expanding Japan's Diplomatic Reach:Tracing Emperor Akihito's visits to India

20 Sep 2022

Being a constitutional monarchy in which her latest work, China, Japan, the monarch “reigns but does not govern”, the constitution of Japan and Senkaku Islands: Conf lict regards the emperor as “the symbol of the State and of the unity of in the East China Sea Amid an the people” who “shall not have powers related to government.” The metonymic meanings of the Chrysanthemum Throne encompass the Ame. [...] The latter is a member of the Imperial House of Japan, and was the The emperor in contemporar y Japan is 125th Emperor of Japan of the Yamamoto dynasty the principal symbol of the Japanese state. [...] the monarchy driving social change.7 Akihito’s engagement to Michiko and the middle-class It was in the above setting that the first visit image of the young imperial couple provided of then Crown Prince Akihito, accompanied considerable reassurance to the Japanese that by then Crown Princess (and later Empress) their society was egalitarian.8 Michiko was planned to India – with the objective of e. [...] The sapling, which has grown into a gathering in attendance, and underscored majestic tree, is symbolic of a similar growth the impor tance of the occasion of the 60th witnessed in Indo-Japan relations, the emperor anniversar y of diplomatic relations between reflected after seeing the blossoming of the tree. [...] But by the sixth century, The Empress and I were both very young Buddhism, which had originated in India, at the time, only in our mid-twenties, and was introduced to Japan … and by the eighth we fell far short of fully understanding the century, the city of Nara, the capital of Japan depth of your great country.
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