 | 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... | |
 | W. M. Spellman, W. M.. Spellman - Political Science - 2001 - 324 pages
...the centrality of the sacred monarch's role in the new government. Here it was stated plainly that 'The empire of Japan shall be reigned over and governed by a line of emperors unbroken for ages eternal.'*1 Ito Hirobumi, one of the principal authors of the new constitution, provided a commentary... | |
 | Malcolm Trevor - Business & Economics - 2001 - 316 pages
...of its appearance in the first sentence of the Meiji Constitution in the form of words stating that Japan 'shall be reigned over and governed by a line of Emperors unbroken for ages eternal': that is the political reality of what is also referred to in the bland translation of kokittai as 'the... | |
 | Ray A. Moore, Donald L. Robinson - History - 2002 - 432 pages
...set of proposals. This document, conventionally called Draft B, would have substituted for article I ("The Empire of Japan shall be reigned over and governed...a line of Emperors unbroken for ages eternal") the simple assertion that "Japan is a monarchy." The phrase "unbroken for ages eternal" was displaced to... | |
 | James L. McClain - History - 2002 - 760 pages
...together under the heading "Chapter 1 ," concerned the emperor.23 The very first article established that 'The Empire of Japan shall be reigned over and governed...by a line of Emperors unbroken for ages eternal," while the following clauses declared him "sacred and inviolable" with full and sole possession of "the... | |
 | Paul R. Spickard - Ethnicity - 2005 - 412 pages
...Article I, the Constitution of the Empire of Japan promulgated on February 2, 1889, which declares: "The Empire of Japan shall be reigned over and governed...by a line of Emperors unbroken for ages eternal." (quoted in Yatsuki, Tenno to Nihon, 199). 55. John W. Dower, Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of... | |
 | James C. Davis - History - 2004 - 488 pages
...shogun to retire and seemingly "restored" the emperor to power. A new constitution proclaimed that Japan "shall be reigned over and governed by a line of Emperors unbroken for ages eternal." In practice, though, the emperor remained what he had been before, a symbol, and his elderly but energetic... | |
 | Masako Shibata - Education - 2005 - 238 pages
...was changed in the new constitution, drafted by SCAP, from that in the Meiji constitution: Article I: The Empire of Japan shall be reigned over and governed...a line of Emperors unbroken for ages eternal. (The Constitution of the Empire of Japan of 1890) Article I : The Emperor shall be the symbol of the State... | |
 | Gbingba Gbosoe - 2006 - 400 pages
...forever assume the duty of allegiance to the present Constitution. CHAPTER I: THE EMPEROR Article 1. The Empire of Japan shall be reigned over and governed by a line of Emperors unbroken for ages eternal. Article 2. The Emperial Throne shall be succeeded to by Imperial male descendants, according to the... | |
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The Empire of Japan shall be reigned over and governed by a line of Emperors unbroken for ages eternal. 
