POST WAR WORLD 1946 1959
RECONSTRUCTION OF JAPANS GOVERNMENT
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Question
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He became the leader of the parliament.
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His role was mostly ceremonial.
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The office of emperor was eliminated.
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He was given control of the military.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Emperor Hirohito of Japan died of cancer at the age of 87 on January 7, 1989. He was once worshipped as a god incarnate. After World War II, he renounced his divinity and became the symbol of both the state and the unity of the people.
Detailed explanation-2: -Hirohito was the head of state under the Meiji Constitution during Japan’s imperial expansion, militarization, and involvement in World War II. Japan waged a war across Asia in the 1930s and 40s in the name of Hirohito, who was revered as a god.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Emperor of Japan is the monarch and the head of the Imperial Family of Japan. Under the Constitution of Japan, he is defined as the symbol of the Japanese state and the unity of the Japanese people, and his position is derived from “the will of the people with whom resides sovereign power".