wakibitos

Japan after 1945 and the Empire of Japan from 1868 to 1945 were two completely incompatible political systems: a democracy with a sovereign people and a constitutional monarchy with a sovereign Emperor. Despite this, the symbolic emperor system was introduced in order to maintain continuity between the two systems. I believe that Japan and the Empire of Japan were made to be continuous under the fiction of the Emperor’s bloodline that is supposed to be continued for thousands of years. Why the continuity? The simplest answer is to keep the Emperor System alive, but since the continuity of the prewar and postwar systems and the continuity of the Emperor System are inextricably linked, it is just a tautology in the broad sense of the word. It would have been possible to make them discontinuous. In order to make it continuous, there must not be any fallacy in the Emperor System, so the Emperor himself explained that he was a pacifist who opposed war both before and after the war, and that it was the military and war criminals who were at fault. Therefore, as a nation, we cannot and will not reflect on the past. I think of the history of modern Japan this way.