Yoshie Nishikawa (82) is a volunteer social worker in Tokyo, a busy, well-connected, a petite lady. You can consider whether you can be soon looking out for the Emperor or for it to remain. Naruhito will be crowned on Tuesday, the grandson Hirohitos, the son of Akihito’s, he is Japan’s 126. Emperor.
Tokyo is to celebrate, as soon as the consequences of the terrible Typhoon are processed prior to ten days, and the Parade from the Imperial Palace in the district of Chiyoda to the Imperial residence in Akasaka then will come also to Yoshie Nishikawas apartment. So why not take a look, if you have the time? “Like the Marathon. Cheer.” But really it does not affect this event. “With my life, the Emperor has nothing to do with it.”
Some people say it is risky, to say what she says, so her Name is changed. Your answers to the question, what is the meaning of the Japanese women and the Japanese, their Emperor, to do with criticism a little. Rather they talk of a relationship that has improved after a scary Start gradually so that Yoshie Nishikawa speaks today with a certain degree of sympathy from the man, sitting up there on the chrysanthemum throne. But the rich, in order to be conservative circles as a Majesty, an insult.
At first glance, the Imperial dominion seems to be full of power and charisma. State people and nobles from more than 190 countries came yesterday for the enthronement. The Parade has the government due to the severe Typhoon in the 10. November laid – but even at this later date, many people will line the route and cheer when the Emperor Naruhito and his wife, Empress Masako, rolling in the specially-built convertible sedan a half hour through the city.
state icon, and the priests
the duties of the Abilities to receive state guests and to visit States in the name of Japan. The Japanese Constitution stipulates that the Emperor “is the Symbol of the state and of the unity of the people”. In addition, he is the highest priest of the state religion, Shinto.
But the Japanese it still important? Naruhitos father Akihito, has its role, at least up to the limits of what is Possible to exhaust, so that the Emperor in the freedom To post-war society, can be something more than a silent Patron of Nippon.
Yoshie Nishikawa know yet, when you and all other people in Japan for the first Time heard the voice of the Emperor. It was on 15. August 1945. Japan was a debris field. She knelt with the family in front of the Radio, the glance is lowered, the hands in the Shot put, and mind at first. Crackle. A bright, distant male voice in an odd sing-song. Words like heavy stones.
The Imperial Japanese in the service, work hard, and sacrifice is ready. He is supposed to embody discipline, no concerns, media or ideas.
The adults explained to her what that meant. The Emperor had said the war was to end. Later they saw that this Hirohito, you are not allowed to watch as a kid had dropped his aloofness. The Americans wanted no God, the same Emperor who should be as far as possible away from the people, they wanted a harmless figure of identification for the reconstruction, and so the Emperor brought in, and traveled the country, donated his subjects of consolation and encouragement. “That was a turning point for Japan,” says Yoshie Nishikawa.
And what was the first for a change, as Hirohito in 1989, after 62-year reign, died and Akihito his legacy began. A narrow man with a natural Smile, and without any war, past, suddenly, for the Japanese government. The first Emperor, at least he had studied briefly, the had married a Commoner, his tennis acquaintance of Michiko Shoda, daughter of a wealthy businessman. And had been known to the office closer to the people, bring. Yoshie Nishikawa says: “The Tenno became friendly.”
she smiles on airs and graces, which makes the Imperial Japan today. You pull out your pocket calendar and the table of the Japanese time calculation. The reign of each Emperor gets a name, by the government and a group of hand-picked experts determine. The names are mostly a rare word from the early Japanese literature, which is hard to translate into another language, because it is only for a term, but a whole atmosphere, for a poetic state. Hirohitos Era was called Showa, which means “Enlightened peace” and, therefore, with a view on the war, to which the first Showa-Phase seems to be quite inappropriate. Akihito’s Era called Heisei, “peace everywhere”, the wearing of Naruhito the name of Reiwa, “Wonderful harmony”. The year 2019 is up to 30. April, the day of Akihito’s abdication, the year Heisei 31. And from 1. May it is the year Reiwa 1.
The revolutionary on the throne
Some of Akihito’s call for a revolutionary. He showed remorse for Japan’s war guilt, travelled as a first Japanese Emperor to China, visited victims of natural disasters. Normal people were stirred, as Akihito and Michiko, bent already from the age, knelt in 2011 after the big earthquake and Tsunami in East Japan by the affected cities traveled to, the people you face looked, and force wanted. For muscular nationalists it was too much proximity and you were right to be outraged, as Akihito worthy held in August 2016, and his memorable television speech.
Akihito was 82 years old, he had a prostate and a Bypass surgery. He read with a firm voice his personal opinion from the sheet. He spoke of the health of an old man, dwindling forces, he said: “I worry that it will be difficult for me to carry my duties as the Symbol of the state, as I have done until now.” That was the indirect request to be allowed to resign, although he must be according to the Constitution, to the death of the Emperor. Breaking A Taboo. A law-debate followed. The government relented. As the first Emperor after 202 years, Akihito was on 30. April 2019 abdicate.
the title of The “Emperor” is full, but in truth he has no Power. The Japanese Emperor’s basic rights, which should, according to the European Constitution anyone deny missing even. He’s not allowed to say his opinion, do not demonstrate, do not work as he wants, according to a conservative interpretation of the Constitution he is not allowed to choose once. Actually, he only has obligations that derive from a comprehensive System of Shinto ceremonies, on the other hand, from the desire of the state to have a visible representative.
The accession to the throne of Emperor Naruhito (22. October 2019). Video: world
The Emperor must pray, the rice field of the Imperial Palace to order and may appoint officials such as the Prime Minister. The Emperor is a Japanese in the service, work hard, and sacrifice. He is supposed to embody discipline, no ideas, or concerns be, the debates abuts and trouble. But what will become of a office that has no voice?
anyone Who is eager is serious with the Imperial house, whether Naruhito (59) can also be an innovator. He has long said that he wanted to follow the path of his father, Akihito, in a self-critical remembrance of the war, close to the people. He is a dainty man like his father. His Smile is a little more subtle, and in his glance, an alertness that would prohibit nationalist hardliners probably prefer is. He is the first Emperor, has studied abroad in Oxford history. He plays the Viola and likes to wander. And he knows the hardships of the Imperial family life. The diplomat’s daughter, Masako Owada was not the choice of the Hofamtes as the bride of the crown Prince. Naruhito was, but then the Pair came under pressure, because the Imperial family needed a male heir to the throne.
in 2001, came their daughter, Aiko, to the world, but an Empress is for the majority of the political Elite not to imagine. The pressure made Masako sick. “Stress-induced adjustment disorder” was the widely-spread diagnosis. Naruhito turned in front of you. He criticized even publicly the court office, with its rules and Prohibited to have Masakos personality limited. In 2006, the situation relaxed to the heir to the throne because Prince Hisahito was born, the son of Naruhitos younger brother Akishino and his wife Princess Kiko. But it is precisely the “woman question” shows the cosmopolitan Naruhito, to convince how persistently Japan’s political Elite of a fresher company image.
Naruhito said Masako, that you will do as his wife what they wanted to achieve with their studies in Harvard, and Oxford: the diplomatic service. Empress Masako is fluent in English and French. As US President Donald Trump in may at the invitation of Abe, the first state guest of the Reiwa Era on Naruhito met, fell on the especially. Trump brought a 1938-Allison Viola from Charleston as a gift. Naruhito looked at the precious Instrument. And Masako said: “your Majesty, how would it be if you play today evening?” This Repartee. This Eye-Level. Otherwise, the Emperor, were always a step behind the Tenno. Masako could be the new leading figure for women’s rights in male-dominated Japan.
Created: 22.10.2019, 19:24 PM
