Emperor Akihito Analysis
One may assume that right-wing organisations in many countries support some sort of monarchy or imperial system, whether that be because of tradition or because by giving support they may gain some legitimate power, and by assuming this, one would therefore naturally come to the conclusion that right-wing organisations (uyoku dantai) in Japan would therefore have support for the Emperor. The purpose of this essay is thus to evaluate to what extent the current Emperor Akihito is a symbol for right-wing organisations in Japan.
In order to see whether or not such organisations use the emperor as a symbol, we must first look at these groups and their origins. Szymkowiak and Steinhoff state that the “core ideology of the Japanese radical right” was birthed in the years following the Meiji …show more content…
Doak (2007, 83) states that whilst forms of nationalism outside of Japan, such as in France after the French Revolution, tend to be republican in nature, “Japanese nationalism is often characterised as intimately connected with the tennô (the monarch, “the emperor”)”. This is possibly due to the Emperor Meiji being a symbol of Japan’s modernisation and the end of the oppressive, 200 years long Tokugawa shogunate and establishing a slightly more
In order to see whether or not such organisations use the emperor as a symbol, we must first look at these groups and their origins. Szymkowiak and Steinhoff state that the “core ideology of the Japanese radical right” was birthed in the years following the Meiji …show more content…
Doak (2007, 83) states that whilst forms of nationalism outside of Japan, such as in France after the French Revolution, tend to be republican in nature, “Japanese nationalism is often characterised as intimately connected with the tennô (the monarch, “the emperor”)”. This is possibly due to the Emperor Meiji being a symbol of Japan’s modernisation and the end of the oppressive, 200 years long Tokugawa shogunate and establishing a slightly more