Japanese Emperor?

Question

How important is the Emperor in making decisions in Japan? Is he just kinda like the British Queen where its really the Prime Minister doing all the work and shes just a symbol of power.

Answer 1

He is a figure head.  My son was recently in Japan and told me that the Japanese are very proud of their Emperor and his family and show a great deal of admiration and respect.

best of luck to you!

Answer 2

He is a figure-head only.   The Japanese constitution excluded him from all de jure power.   His is a title of honour.   The Head of Government is the prime minster and he is the holder of executive power.

Usually, monarchs are called Sovereigns and are the Head of State.   As such, the government and the Prime Minister rule on behalf of the king or emperor but the monarch has no power of their own.

In Japan, the power is further reduced in that the people are sovereign rather than the Emperor and the Emperor is not the Head of State - Japan does not have one.

Answer 3

The Japanese emperor used to be all-powerful.  He was considered to be divine because he was supposed to be directly descened from Amaterasu, the Sun Goddes, the chief deity of the Shinto pantheon.

Nowadays though I think his role is mainly ceremonial, like the Queen of england.  Probably he works very hard like our own Queen does, but is not directly involved in government.

Answer 4

The Emperor is a Title bestowed on him from generations down. He makes no decisions whatsoever.  What this really is is a tradition.  But he sure lives like a king, is waited on hands and feet, eat the best foods and gets the best treatment, and is bowed down by the people of Japan. Other than that he is only a man with no authority.

One day this Emperor will bow down to the greatest of all Kings, Jesus Christ.

Answer 5

Since the end of WW2, when Japanese Emperor Hirohito under the pressure of allied forces gave his speech to the public in which he admitted he's not divine but only a human,  mythic role of the Japanese Emperors vanished...They can be regarded as similar to British and other royalties still existing...

Answer 6

The Emperor (tennō, literally "heavenly sovereign,") of Japan is the country's monarch. He is the head of the Japanese Imperial Family. Under Japan's present constitution, the Emperor is the "symbol of the state and the unity of the people," and is a ceremonial figurehead in a constitutional monarchy. The current emperor is His Imperial Majesty the Emperor Akihito, who has been on the Chrysanthemum Throne since his father Emperor Shōwa (Hirohito) died in 1989.

The role of the emperor of Japan has historically alternated between that of a supreme-rank cleric with largely symbolic powers and that of an actual imperial ruler. An underlying imperial cult (the idea of Arahitogami) regards the emperor as being descended from gods. Until 1945, the Japanese monarchs had always been, officially, military commanders. However, contrary to the usual role of a Western monarch, they did not practically function as such. Japanese emperors have nearly always been controlled by other political forces, to varying degrees.

Answer 7

Japanese Emperor can make his ppl treat him as GOd

ppl r willing to die for him but that was the past.....

Now japanese no more emperor zzzz

Answer 8

The Japanese Emperor has no say in any Japanese decision making process.  He is solely a figure-head.