They are just a bunch of small irrelevant islands. Britain just has kings and queens even though they once ruled over quarter of the world
Do they have a complex or something?
Why do they have an emperor?
Easton Rogers
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Luke Young
Weird little autistic freaks
Levi Cox
>british "empire"
>no emperor
Evan Morgan
>Do they have a complex or something?
Yes, they're very little
Nathaniel Rivera
Shahar why are you in Turkey? They are hairy muslim animals.
Levi Butler
Emperor is just a western translation. Actual emperors are monarchs claiming legitimacy back to rome, like the russian tsars or german kaisers. British monarchs did not LARP in this fashion. Idk what japanese "emperors" have as their actual title, but in china for example it was always a huangdi. I don't understand why the west doesn't properly translate in these instances, when they would for khans or sultans.
Julian Lee
You are mistaken the word Ceasar, with the word Emperor.
Asher Howard
They had a decent chunk of land
Jason Perry
it's 天皇 tennou (“heavenly sovereign”), not emperor
thanks for being weebs
Anthony Morales
Does shinto even have a concept of heaven?
Andrew Garcia
The reason the emperor has survived this long is because of authority. Since the Kamakura period, a samurai(knight) of low social standing has often risen to a high position. They then gain ground by being recognized by the Emperor. for instance, a man who unified Japan for the first time were a peasants. other some of reasons are kept alive by those who take advantage of the Emperor, now and in the past. by the way, the translation "emperor" was purposely chosen to magnify the authority of the emperor.
Michael Long
Yes, there is. I don't know much about it, but it's often referred to as "crossing the river after death.
Evan Edwards
Well, this is probably the same everywhere.
Caleb Mitchell
>Bullshit
天 is heavenly, 皇 is emperor
Wyatt Roberts
Joshua Evans
Emperor derives from Imperator, one of the titles (like Caesar) that the Roman Emperors added to their names. Both were used later by different countries/languages for the same reason, to compare themselves to Rome/derive legitimacy. This user is not wrong. "Emperor" is just a translation of the actual title of the Japanese Emperor, which doesn't have the same meaning or origin.
Jeremiah Hall
lol, you have to admit the culture is definitely autistic, it's why we get along.
Connor Johnson
The king/queen was the emperor of India until it became free
Jackson Fisher
In Europe you can only claim to be Emperor if you have a claim to be Roman Emperor. Napoleon and Russia both larped as Roman Emperors
Jackson Rodriguez
Napoleon was Larping as Charlemagne who was Larping as a Roman Emperor. The British monarch called themselves Emperors of India at some point too but that's relatively recent history.
Adam Lee
In Europe you only get to be an Emperor if you rule over an Empire... And an Empire is a state where a minority ethnicity holds considerable more power than the majority.
Napoleon was the leader of such as state, and so was Russia. French and Russians both minorities in their state held considerable more rights than peoples of other ethnicities inside their imperial state.
Except the holy roman empire, and the joke goes that it was neither holy, nor roman, nor an empire.
Cooper Williams
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The kicker is that in fact the Japanese word for emperor actually means 'celestial emperor', which only adds more comedy to the whole business. Japs like to pretend that their celestial emperor is just 'some friendly old man' and that they don't care about the celestial imperial family but try making fun of it and you'll see utter disbelief followed by fanatical wrath.