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rtige Six THE LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER, LA GRANDE, OREGON Saturday, August, 18, 1945 Our Boarding House With Major Hoople Out Our Way J.R. Williams L-iiCwwrifild, 1915. Olio UToliscllus: DUtribuleii NLA MUWILb, If-W THE GOD-EMPEROR HI TN the eyci and hearts of his sub Jects, the Japanese Emperor Is no ordinary mortal ruler like the secular ana pouiicui neuun ul aiuic I in the West, Including kings who claim to rule by divine right. He is God himself, or rather the human Incarnation or an eternal uoo. This unique position of the Jop snese EmDeror. which by a his torlcai paradox, Is far more firmly established In modern than It was In feudal Japan, is based on the national Shinto faith which pro. claims that he Is the lineal de scendant of the Sun Goddess, the highest deity in the Japanese Pantheon of "eight hundred myrt ad" Bods, who rules the Heavens, and Who charged her descendants with the rule of the Japanese Islands. This assumed descent is accepted by the whole Japanese natiitn, barring a few intellictuuls long since silenced, as a literal and fundamental truth, and it is the basic maxim on which rests the whole Japanese theocratic state. There is, indeed, no ruler on earth able to command the same kind of religious reverence ond fanatical loyalty and devotion as the Japanese people freely give to the r Emperor. It Is not necessary that the Em peror be good, or wise, or strong. His title is his lineage which makes him God: and os Ood he Is in theory the absolute ruler, in fact, the absolute owner of all Japan and all the Japanese peo ple, above oil human Judgment or challenge, above even the frulltiuK of his own human Incarnation. Legitimacy Questioned There Is no doubt that the Jnp ancse dynasty Is by far tho oldest in the world so old and unique that It Is without a' family name. But it did not olwoyn enjoy its present prosperity. Within his toric times it hus suffered many vicissitudes, ond by Western standards even its legitimacy in more than dubious. By no meon5 has tho Japonese throno been al ways transmitted in direct suc cession from father to son. The dynasty could bo sustained only because of the very flexible Ori ental concept of what ronstltutos a family a concept bosrd not on the union Itetween husband and wife, but on the relation between father and children. The womon does not account for iruch in Japan, and the illegitimacy of the offspring on the mother's 1do is no bar to inheritance. If thrae is no heir by the legitimate Empress, an heir by a concubine is Jus', as eligible. The father of the present Emperor was himself the offspring of such a union between the Em- P3"j'"'i 1 1 I n--? ' Vr i miiK ; - Mwrl ! " I WIIU IS. l.i N iTolischusN Emperor Hirohito "Japan is a holy land. It was made by the Gods, whose lineal descendant is the Emperor. Hence he must be , , wor shiped as a Cod." peror Meijl and a lady of the court. If there is no offspring by the ruling emperor at all, the throne goes to the next of kin within tho large Imperial clan comprising many fumilics. Only thus was the life of tho dynasty stretched out over many centuries. The succession to the throne Is now reguiuled by the Imperial House Law which takes that situ ation Into account, It provides that the throne shall go to the male descendants of the male line in the order of seniority and near ness or kin. But this ordered succession is or recent origin. Prior to it, the succession was often decided by the whims of in dividual Emperors or Empresses, by the intrigues among the fadies or the gentlemen of the Imperial boudoirs, until finally the throne became merely a pawn in tho power politics of the strong men who reully ruled the country. WHAT Shinto hus been able to make of the .TaDnnoso Emuor- ors within living memory is shown by the following: "According to Shinto, Japan is a holy land. It was made by the Gods, whose lineal descendant is the Emperor. Hence he must be revered and worshiped as a God." Constitutional Development of Japan, 1863-1881, by Dr. Toyo- klchi Iyenoga, Johns Hopkins university studies, 1B1. "It is the duty of every man born on the Imperial soil to yield devoted loyalty to hit Sovereign, even at the sacrifice of his own life. Let no one suppose for a moment that there' Is any credit due him for so doing." Htstcry or me irue succession or tne ut vine Monarchs, by Kitabatoke Chikafusa, 1293-1354. Heavenly Created Throne "Japan's national polity is unique in the World. Heaven sent down Ninlgo-no-Mlkoto to Koshl hura, Yamato Province, with a message that their posterity should reign over and govern Ju pon for ages eternal. It was on this happy day, 2601 years ago, that our first Emperor, Jlmmu, ascended the throne. Dynasties in foreign countries were created by man. Foreign kings, emperors and presidents are all created by men, while Japan has a sacred throne, inherited from the Imperial an cestors. Japanese Imperial rule, therefore, is an extension of Heaven. The dynasties created by men may collapse but the Heav enly created throne is beyond men's power." Baron KJIchlro Hlranuma, Home Minister, in speech to school teachers at cele bration of the "2001st" anniver sary of the foundation of the Jap anese Empire, Feb. 11, 1941, "That the Mikado reigns and govorns the country absolutely, by a Right inherited from His Divine Ancestors, is the uncon scious belief and the instinctive feeling of the Japanese people. Indeed it may be said to be their religion. Theoretically he is the center of the State as well as the State itself. He is to the Japanese i mind the Supreme Being in the Cosmos of Japan, as God is in the Universe to the pantheistic philosopher. From him everything emanates; in him everything sub sists; there is nothing on the soil of Japan existent independent of him. He is the sole owner of the Empire, tho author of law, Justice, privilege, and honor, and the sym bol of the unity of the Japanese nation. . . ." The Political De velopment of Japan, by George Etsujlro Uyehara, former Vine Speuker of the House of Repre sentatives, London, 1910, (NEXT: Emperor of the World) ' VACATION AMD UESERTlrS PANGS OP NAPOLEON IN E"ia.Lt, ABANOOMED BV THOSE RCKLE SOULS VlHO grVSKED IKi HIS HEVOEV , OF POMP AMD SPLENDOR ShLTT OFF THE FAUCET, MAvJOk. THE BOVS HAME SOME. TO A POTATO PLAMTATIOM TO ROOT UP SPUDS IS THAT ANV REASON TO ST VJlTH A CArAEL COME OM, 1 LP X 7 AND TRY TO LHgKr ME A6AIM AT (51 Si RUNArAY '!) VjLL.W Mends his BROK&M HEART A LITTLE: . 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