| Thomas Philip Terry - Japan - 1927 - 1272 pages
...cclxxxii. The Constitution * of Japan (Seitai), promulgated Feb. 11, 1889, provides that the Empire shall be reigned over and governed ' by a line of Emperors unbroken for ages eternal'; the executive power is therefore vested in the Emperor, and is exercised by him through ten ministers whom... | |
| Frederick Elmore Lumley - Sociology - 1928 - 590 pages
...government of Europe and America, adopted the autocratic type. Article I of the constitution reads: "The Empire of Japan shall be reigned over and governed...by a line of Emperors unbroken for ages eternal." By "reigned over and governed," Baron Ito explained that "the Emperor on his throne combines in himself... | |
| Kazuo Kawai - History - 1960 - 270 pages
...Japan which makes it Japan— has been considered to lie in the fact that this nation has been and shall be "reigned over and governed by a line of Emperors unbroken for ages eternal." In the jargon of Japanese political theory, this is what is known as koktttai, or "national polity,"... | |
| Peter L. Berger, Hsin Huang Michael Hsiao - 272 pages
...one fundamental point.10 This concerned Article I of the constitution; an article that finally read: "The Empire of Japan shall be reigned over and governed by a line of Emperors unbroken forages eternal." A similar expression will also be found in the first paragraph of the Preamble of... | |
| William S. Dietrich - Political Science - 1991 - 360 pages
...expression in the preamble of the Meiji Constitution, which proudly proclaimed that Japan had been "reigned over and governed by a line of Emperors unbroken for ages eternal." 29 Of course, as we have seen, the 1947 constitution irrevocably changed the basis of sovereignty from... | |
| Walter LaFeber - History - 1998 - 550 pages
...anniversary of the founding of the Japanese state, and so it was not unexpected when Article I declared: "The Empire of Japan shall be reigned over and governed...by a line of Emperors unbroken for ages eternal." Article XIII stated: "The Emperor declares war, makes peace, and concludes treaties." Sacred and sovereign,... | |
| David John Lu - History - 1997 - 420 pages
...of Japan, tr. by Ito Miyoji (Tokyo: Chuo University Press, 1906), pp. 2-4, 6-10, 15-21. ARTICLE I. The Empire of Japan shall be reigned over and governed by a line of Emperors unbroken for ages eternal. Since the time when the first Imperial Ancestor opened it, the country has not been free from occasional... | |
| Johann Nawrocki - Political science - 1998 - 452 pages
...1962; Beckmann G: The Making of the Meiji Constitution, Kansas 1957). '" Meiji- Verfassung l . Artikel: The Empire of Japan shall be reigned over and governed by a line of Emperors unbroken for ages etemal' (ITÖ 1889: 2); trotz dieses Grundsatzes der shintöistischen Tradition bot die Konstitution... | |
| Gary D. Allinson - History - 1999 - 284 pages
...forever assume the duty of allegiance to the present Constitution. Chapter i: The Emperor Article i. The Empire of Japan shall be reigned over and governed by a line of Emperors unbroken for ages etemal. Article 2. The Imperial Throne shall be succeeded to by Imperial male descendants, according... | |
| Chushichi Tsuzuki - History - 2000 - 562 pages
...wrote in his commentaries on the constitution.34 Article 1, Chapter 1 (The Emperor) reads: 'The Great Empire of Japan shall be reigned over and governed by a line of Emperors unbroken for ages eternal.' On this Ito commented: 'the splendor of the Sacred Throne transmitted through an unbroken line of one... | |
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